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I do not recommend Louis Rossman. Instead of learning, you’ll listen to endless hateful anti-Apple rants, deceitful personal attacks and unsubstantiated specula

I do not recommend Louis Rossman. Instead of learning, you’ll listen to endless hateful anti-Apple rants, deceitful personal attacks and unsubstantiated speculations of how terrible Apple engineers are - the whole community is cultish and they love listening to LR just about anything. I despise his channel and his popularity.

philpem 7y ago
You could say similar about Dave Jones (EEVBlog) to be fair. His forum very much reflects his audience...
HocusLocus 7y ago
Rossman has earned his grumpy and acerbic attitude in an old fashioned and honest way: routinely repairing expensive devices that were not meant to be repaired. Having to salvage working components from salvaged boards because the manufacturer decided not to supply them. His board working technique is first rate and he goes to great lengths to show you every step of the process. You learn things even if you were to mute the audio and play "Endless Sax Man" instead! How many other Youtube channels would survive that treatment? Apple engineers are first rate also, but they've been dis-incentivized to do anything that would make affordable component level repair part of the life cycle, its parts distributed widely enough to be accessible, and technicians (factory trained or otherwise) capable, Unless this corporate approach FAILS spectacularly in the end, the human race is heading into a cul de sac of evolution by having its most essential technologies hanging by tiny threads. Some day Apple will decline and their newer technology will all be in the landfill... and Rossman will still be repairing last-generation boards. But... by failing to make things repairable and removing whole customer care layers from their business plan, Apple has managed to bring prices down! That's a joke BTW

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I do not recommend Louis Rossman. Instead of learning, you’ll listen to endless hateful anti-Apple rants, deceitful personal attacks and unsubstantiated specula

by spectramax 7y ago

philpem 7y ago
You could say similar about Dave Jones (EEVBlog) to be fair. His forum very much reflects his audience...
HocusLocus 7y ago
Rossman has earned his grumpy and acerbic attitude in an old fashioned and honest way: routinely repairing expensive devices that were not meant to be repaired. Having to salvage working components from salvaged boards because the manufacturer decided not to supply them. His board working technique is first rate and he goes to great lengths to show you every step of the process. You learn things even if you were to mute the audio and play "Endless Sax Man" instead! How many other Youtube channels would survive that treatment? Apple engineers are first rate also, but they've been dis-incentivized to do anything that would make affordable component level repair part of the life cycle, its parts distributed widely enough to be accessible, and technicians (factory trained or otherwise) capable, Unless this corporate approach FAILS spectacularly in the end, the human race is heading into a cul de sac of evolution by having its most essential technologies hanging by tiny threads. Some day Apple will decline and their newer technology will all be in the landfill... and Rossman will still be repairing last-generation boards. But... by failing to make things repairable and removing whole customer care layers from their business plan, Apple has managed to bring prices down! That's a joke BTW