Xed

What a pathetic lawsuit.

danox said:

Xed said:

StrangeDays said:

Good thing I don’t know anybody who gives a shirt about that, let alone any normals. 

You know you can like Apple products -and- want them to be easier for DIYers to repair and upgrade.

I found the video interesting and I'm glad that these are easier to repair. 

Why so that a market in stolen parts is made? The fantasy of a little mom and pop shop fixing high end electronic devices is coming to an end, future SOC'S and devices like the Apple Vision are getting smaller due publics demand smaller and more powerful equipment.

If my iPhone, Mac Studio Ultra or XDR monitor go down Apple will be the one's to fix them.

Mom and pop shop? What does that have to do with anything? I only mentioned DIYers. Why is it wrong to be interested in how these are built and how to repair them?

Since you bring up AVP, I'll address that as an excellent example. That is clearly Apple's most advanced product yet. You suggest that not a single person would ever want or need to repair that device, and yet I see a very real market for people that have an AVP that have a cracked cover glass. It probably still functions fine in this scenario but maybe they don't like it or they're looking to sell it in pristine condition before the next model comes out. If they have AC+ then the repair is $300 but if they don't then it's $800. I would imagine that the cover glass would cost less than the repair process from Apple, so why are you against an owner wanting a walk through down to every screw, a list of tools needed, and a rating of difficulty to do it themselves? Why are you against iFixit for giving these guides away? As I said, I've probably done my last intricate repair as my eyes age and the tech become more complex, but there are people with better eyes, more skill, and more imagination that will do things that you have yet to consider.

macxpress said:

Xed said:

macxpress said:

Xed said:

StrangeDays said:

Good thing I don’t know anybody who gives a shirt about that, let alone any normals. 

You know you can like Apple products -and- want them to be easier for DIYers to repair and upgrade.

I found the video interesting and I'm glad that these are easier to repair. 

While I agree the video is interesting, 99.999999% of Apple customers really don't give a shit one way or another if they can repair it. The vast majority will just take it somewhere to get fixed should something go wrong. It's really only some on these Mac forums that make a big stink about repairability because they think Apple should make a computer like they did back in the 90's where everything is removable. . 

Even if it only 1 in 10 million — as you state — that is apparently enough to keep iFixit and many other self-repair websites with plenty of business. However, your statement is clearly hyperbole even if we use the world's population of 8.1 billion. 

I happen to be a very long time customer of iFixit. I've seen them go through many, many changes. They offer their guides free of charge but then offer tools that you can buy through them or elsewhere to repair and upgrade your own equipment. This isn't just invaluable to people like me that wanted to make changes to their own equipment without going in blind in terms of tools and what to expect once inside, but ratings so I can gauge how difficult it would be do complete the desired task. The last one I did was a RAM upgrade in a Mac mini, but unfortunately I think that's the last that my aging eyes will allow me.

There are many countries and people who simply don't have the luxury of getting new tech when their old one breaks. Having how-to guides can be indispensable tools for the DIYers.

https://slate.com/technology/2014/04/agbogbloshie-jua-kali-how-entrepreneurs-turn-e-waste-into-usable-products.html

Reducing eWaste, saving money, or just having fun tinkering with used hardware should not be a threat to anyone who wants the latest iPhone so I'm always surprised by how much pushback iFixit gets on this website. 

And you also prove my point very well....

How exactly did I prove that only 800 people in the world will ever want to fix or upgrade their own devices?

You know how I knew that AVP was the industry leader of AR/VR headsets just a week after it was released? Because Zuckface made a point to tell us how much it sucked in comparison to Oculus. If I ever see Tim Cook review and pooh pooh some other vendor's product I'll know that Apple has failed miserably to compete.

macxpress said:

Xed said:

StrangeDays said:

Good thing I don’t know anybody who gives a shirt about that, let alone any normals. 

You know you can like Apple products -and- want them to be easier for DIYers to repair and upgrade.

I found the video interesting and I'm glad that these are easier to repair. 

While I agree the video is interesting, 99.999999% of Apple customers really don't give a shit one way or another if they can repair it. The vast majority will just take it somewhere to get fixed should something go wrong. It's really only some on these Mac forums that make a big stink about repairability because they think Apple should make a computer like they did back in the 90's where everything is removable. . 

Even if it only 1 in 10 million — as you state — that is apparently enough to keep iFixit and many other self-repair websites with plenty of business. However, your statement is clearly hyperbole even if we use the world's population of 8.1 billion. 

I happen to be a very long time customer of iFixit. I've seen them go through many, many changes. They offer their guides free of charge but then offer tools that you can buy through them or elsewhere to repair and upgrade your own equipment. This isn't just invaluable to people like me that wanted to make changes to their own equipment without going in blind in terms of tools and what to expect once inside, but ratings so I can gauge how difficult it would be do complete the desired task. The last one I did was a RAM upgrade in a Mac mini, but unfortunately I think that's the last that my aging eyes will allow me.

There are many countries and people who simply don't have the luxury of getting new tech when their old one breaks. Having how-to guides can be indispensable tools for the DIYers.

https://slate.com/technology/2014/04/agbogbloshie-jua-kali-how-entrepreneurs-turn-e-waste-into-usable-products.html

Reducing eWaste, saving money, or just having fun tinkering with used hardware should not be a threat to anyone who wants the latest iPhone so I'm always surprised by how much pushback iFixit gets on this website.