dysamoria

Rayz2016 said:

ibgarrett said:

Apple has flat-out given up on their software on the Macintosh platform. It used to be the iWorks and iLife packages were a "must have", now it's just given away as an afterthought... It's so frustrating.

I've seen folk who haven't bothered to read the article, but this the first time I've come across someone who didn't make it to the end of the title. 

These are minimal updates for people who really need to get complex projects done. iWork, Pages in specific, was much better prior to the 2013 back-port from iOS.

macplusplus said:

Fake parts from China. Fake logic boards, fake circuits with espionage backdoors, giant botnets built with home-repaired phones and computers...

What you're describing is a RESULT of companies blockading the business of legit repair companies. There used to be tons of repair businesses decades ago.

GeorgeBMac said:

Apple has a right to protect its brand -- which includes its reputation -- from incompetents. 

When people screw up a machine and then claim it doesn't work, that screws up the reputation and downgrades the brand.

You're probably not old enough to know of decades worth of businesses that specialized in post-warranty repair work, which kept lots of equipment out of landfills. The change happened not because of corporations' images suffering via post-warranty repairs (which makes no sense). The change happened because corporations wanted to increase repeat sales by eliminating repair facilities. The economy has changed not by necessity of society but by gross negligence of resources and the environment and via manipulation for greed's sake.

chasm said:

You guys who are complaining about Apple being against repairs should try reading *the entire article* next time. QUOTE "Apple told Brasch it would not oppose LB67 if phones were excepted from the legislation."

Why should the most disposable product be excepted from legislation that might reduce e-waste??

Too bad Apple is just about the green PR, while building disposable products and pushing consumers to replace them every year. At first I believed in their environmental talk. Now it's pretty clear that it's just more marketing.

As for government: we absolutely need a hammer being swung because people won't do anything not in their immediate interests. Regulation of business is a RESPONSE to bad business behavior that harms society and life, not an arbitrary act of controlling people.