Anilu_777

DAalseth said:

Good.
The Right to Repair movement started with farm equipment, and I can see some logic to that. But it is a completely stupid idea in tightly packed, integrated, surface mounted, conformal coated, waterproofed, modern systems. The ONLY people who should be breaking into these things are highly trained people with the proper tools. There are tiny parts that nobody else could replace. There are dangerous parts that if punctured will harm or even kill kill you. Right to Repair has no business being applied to consumer microelectronic devices. They just are not field repairable. 

I’m 50-50 on this. I agree that consumers should not be tinkering with cell phones. There’s just too much that can go wrong. Licensed and trained technicians, however, should be able to repair phones so long as they have the appropriate training and certificate to show their competence for the gadget in question. (I wouldn’t trust a Samsung expert to repair my iPhone and vice versa). Often, people outside of cities or in less-developed countries where money is an issue and phones get handed down, don’t have an Apple Store to go to and need the local technician to repair when things go wrong. 

IDC has been wrong and corrected by Apple before. It’s very interesting that when Samsung’s shipments go down there’s barely a peep. When Samsung has a $1000 phone crickets. But when Apple does the world is ending. I wouldn’t put much stock in shipment estimates since they’ve been wrong before. 

Patent trolls should be outlawed. This is ridiculous. 

So cool!!

And where is the ECG for Canada?!