majorsl

macxpress said:

majorsl said:

rogifan_new said:

I would maybe take iFixit more seriously if they didn’t have a repair kit business where they sell tools to DIYers. Also they seem way more obsessed with Apple than any other consumer electronics manufacturer. Heck they fly people to Australia when a new Apple product launches so they can get a product and do the tear down right away. That’s ridiculous. That’s more about clicks than right to repair or concerns for the environment.

Well, as someone who has purchased their products over the years for repair and saved myself thousands of dollars, bravo to them.  They are filling a niche that people want, and by the appearance of it, a lot of people want.

Hey, if you only want Apple-blessed hands to touch your device, that's cool. For some of us, we can do it ourselves, and if the product is out of warranty and not really worth it to repair through the Apple-priests, we really have nothing to lose except a little time.

Do you think Apple is the only one doing this? Ever try to get a Microsoft Surface repaired (of any model new or old)? Good luck! You have to send it to Microsoft to fix it. I only see more and more companies doing the same thing going forward. Its the same with soldered in RAM and storage. More and more companies are doing the same thing. 

Quite honestly, the amount of people who do want to repair their own Mac or take it to a non-Apple Certified Service Center is very very very low so this is a non-issue for 99.9999999% of Apple's customer base. 

rogifan_new said:

I would maybe take iFixit more seriously if they didn’t have a repair kit business where they sell tools to DIYers. Also they seem way more obsessed with Apple than any other consumer electronics manufacturer. Heck they fly people to Australia when a new Apple product launches so they can get a product and do the tear down right away. That’s ridiculous. That’s more about clicks than right to repair or concerns for the environment.

racerhomie3 said:

I don’t blame anyone. Wait for details to come out. It maybe a cheap charger.
But with Note 7 precedent it’s scary.

mac_128 said:

OK, I’ll be the guy who points out, and likely take the abuse, that Apple streaming devices would be a lot less attractive if they did not have access to Netflix. There’s two sides to this issue, and neither is very pretty. Apple wanting to take a cut of a subscription service which does need their platform to succeed is kind of ridiculous. Netflix developed the iOS and tvOS app primarily for the convenience of their Apple customers, not to leverage the Apple platform to increase their visibility. If I couldn’t get Netflix on my Apple TV, I probably wouldn’t have bought one, and gone with a Roku instead, which is how I handled Amazon Prime (literally switching boxes to watch Prime content, and some others). We’ve already seen this play out with Amazon pulling the Apple TV from their website because it didn’t offer a Prime App, which was entirely up to them to provide or not, likely over similar issues, which is why we likely now have an Prime app that doesn’t allow in app purchases. Fortunately, this is not a major issue for me.  Going to the Amazon app with one click purchasing is no more difficult than buying it in app.