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  • Apple shareholders press company to reverse 'anti-competitive repair policies'

    whatever101whatever101
    Having 3rd parties be able to fix your Apple device or any other without having to go back to constructor is accepted in every other industry. 

    Are the people in here that are anti right to repair telling me you only ever get your car serviced and fix at the dealer and their rip off prices? Cause you are basically saying if you buy a GM car you should only be able to get it fixed by GM.

    Also providing parts and diagrams so repair shops can fix a broken laptop or phone doesn't reveal your strategy. By that logic when my mechanic fixes my Toyota he now knows Toyotas business strategy..... come on
    williamlondonlam92103muthuk_vanalingam

  • Apple shareholders press company to reverse 'anti-competitive repair policies'

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    sbdude said:
    I'm sorry, how does having someone other than Apple repair a phone have anything to do with greenhouse gas emissions? Why would it be any less?
    When a manufacturer blocks repairs, structures and prices repairs so that they are undesirable you are effectively pushing the consumer into the purchase of a new device. A good practice for the manufacturers profits / sales but not so good for the environment. 

    Why? because it is prematurely increases consumption and means the total carbon cost of a device is now higher as its lifespan was shorter than it needed to be, this also increases e-waste.
    muthuk_vanalingamwilliamlondon

  • It could take decades to regulate big tech

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    lmasanti said:
    I won't say that ‘big tech are different each other’ o ‘all are the same’… but for me there is a big difference between a big tech as Apple —as an example— that you pay $1,000- for the device… and a big tech as Facebook/Google/etc. that just ‘take your privacy and data as payment’ —and yes, we ‘also decide to use them’—.
    Yes and no.... in the privacy aspect sure although only cause Apple failed in the ad and social media markets. Let's not forget Apple launched products in both spaces, they just happened to fail. But they certainly lobby for other toxic elements such as anti-competitive tactics in the app store, the fighting of right to repair. You could also make a pretty strong argument about the addictive nature of there products (there is a reason for those little red icons among others) but no one seems ready for that conversation yet. 
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