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  • Apple repair policy critic vows to fight 'counterfeit' battery seizure by U.S. customs

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    slurpy said:
    tokyojimu said:
     I didn’t know YouTube repair personalities was a thing. 
    He is a good repair guy. But he is a bit nuts. I think he is doing valuable work for the Apple ecosystem. 
    What's "valuable" about his work? Encouraging people to open up their modern Macs and repair them themselves, using a soldering iron? His only "value" is enriching himself with all the Apple hating zealots that subscribe to his channel. 99.9999% of people wouldn't benefit an iota from any of his videos. He's not popular on Youtube cause he's a "repair guy", he's popular because of his incessant and vitriolic Apple hatred. 


    Cleary you haven't watched many, if any, of the repairs he does at length. He has the equipment to do it, and does a ton, by all accounts.  As a techie, his videos are amazing to me.  I can solder some pretty small items, but I could never reball a surface mount chip and have it just work.

    Many if his videos specifically point out fail points of some Apple designs where adding a better component would likely make it never fail again - and he does.  This is someone that can read the diagrams and understands them.

    Can he be quirky and have some Apple hate, sure, but if he was working for Apple making videos about component level repairs for them while wearing a blue polo shirt with an Apple logo on it, the more rabid fans of the reality distortion field here would be signing his praises at how skilled Apple employees are.
    dysamoriamacguimuthuk_vanalingam

  • Apple repair policy critic vows to fight 'counterfeit' battery seizure by U.S. customs

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    dgray67 said:
    I do not believe that Apple lied to the customer about the repair to the laptop. They just said to do any repair they would need to fix the water damage issue first. If they only quoted and worked on the screen issue and they found that their original estimate was incorrect or if they had fixed the issue and the customer found another issue or it did not last because of the water damage then the customer would say the Apple lied about the original cost or did not repair the problem correctly. Apple needs to know when the computer leaves their hands that they did everything they could to make sure the repair is as good as it can be.

    That being said I believe that third parties should be able to do some repairs on products as long as the repairs do not compromise the security of the device. As an example, IFixit mentions that after replacing/repairing the touch sensor that the iPhone would not work. Replacing/repairing the touch sensor on an iPhone could compromise the security of the iPhone and should only be done by authorized repair places.
    ...except there was no water damage.  Just a falsely tripped tag due to possible use in high humidity (or maybe CBC tripped it on purpose).  Generally, an experienced tech can tell water damage without the aid of a sticker, but giving the Apple genius the benefit of the doubt, Apple probably has a policy that amounts to "sticker is red, game over, no matter what."
    dysamoria

  • Apple repair policy critic vows to fight 'counterfeit' battery seizure by U.S. customs

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    If you watch his videos, he does make some good points about Apple's insanity on some repair issues.  Been watching him for awhile, I always wished I could do component work like he does.
    dysamoriamuthuk_vanalingamtoysandmejdiamondprismatics

  • Kanye West delivers impromptu 'keynote' at Washington Apple store

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    Just another clown in the circus.
    SydN

  • iFixit finds third-party MacBook Pro and iMac Pro repairs still an option, at least for no...

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    jdw said:
    So tinkerers have no influence at all now?  They are clueless if they think they do?  They are the insignificant riffraff and bane of society? Well then...

    Here's to the crazy tinkerers. The misfits. The rebels in the AppleInsider forums. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of Apple repair rules. And they have no respect for the T2 status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they repair things. They push the Mac forward. And while some may see them as the crazy tinkerers, we the Mac faithful see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the Mac, are the ones who do.
    **love**
    It is as if this generation of Mac users (no bloody macOS) of today have turned into the faceless masses of the 1984 commercial. You can also see Cook as the figure preaching to them on the movie screen.

    Here's to the tinkerers.
    jdw