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  • Ill-informed YouTuber bemoans Apple repair policies after breaking iMac Pro

    airnerdairnerd
    "oh sorry, we can't sell you a new water pump because they are really hard to replace.  Better just buy an entire new car"

    That is the idiotic thinking some are supporting.  
    muthuk_vanalingam

  • Ill-informed YouTuber bemoans Apple repair policies after breaking iMac Pro

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    lordjohnwhorfin said:
    "no matter how much they charge" - Fine. Then the charge is the price of a new computer. Now we have a price for "repair" can we all please move on?
    How wasteful of a company that touts how green it is.
    muthuk_vanalingam

  • iOS 11.3 upgrade fatal for some repaired iPhone 8 screens done by third-party shops

    airnerdairnerd
    SpamSandwich said:
    airnerd said:
    wonkothesane said:
    Welcome your “right to repair”. Consequently, Apple should be taken to court for not taking sufficiently all “updates” imaginable that cheap third party repairers put into the phones and iPads....  
    scnr. 
    The sooner that tech companies are forced to make materials and parts available for 3rd party the better.  Can you imagine if you had to go to the dealership to get every last thing for your car?  Auto companies could claim the same thing, that only their genuine parts can keep your auto running.  While they are correct, people have the CHOICE to go to an aftermarket option.  Some aftermarket stuff voids a warranty (if I replace certain engine parts) while others aren't (I can use any oil and filter from any brand).  Tech should be the same way.  Sure things will work better with the right parts done by the right people, but not everyone wants that cost or has time to deal with that.  

    So as an adult I should be able to accept that risk and be able to work on my own fully owned products or pay whomever I like to fix them.  
    So manufacturers should be treated like slave labor? No!
    No part of what I said and you quoted said that or implied that.  
    muthuk_vanalingam

  • Activists stage 'die-ins' at French Apple stores to protest impact of tax avoidance on soc...

    airnerdairnerd
    I made some poor choices in life.  I should have instead found a way to go down the path where I am a perpetual victim, always outraged by something new and exciting.  Instead I chose to take a route that makes me a responsible father/husband/adult who gets up and goes to work every day to provide for my family.   Some I guess prefer to pretend to die in stores to advocate for taking more of what others have earned.  
    randominternetperson

  • Dozens of iPhone battery throttling lawsuits could get merged in Thursday conference

    airnerdairnerd
    To me the rubber will meet the road when lawyers start showing what Apple knew and when.  If I remember correctly it wasn't until someone with the means to actually perform a test and provide irrefutable data that Apple stepped forward with a mea culpa. IMO that is easily painted as "we knew better, just didn't say anything" which is very simple to twist into Apple was up to something shady.  
    watto_cobra