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I'm curious if this move is impacted by the tariff situation at all. Could Apple be thinking that selling authorized components for repair could be a decent bac
by cushychicken 7y ago
I'm curious if this move is impacted by the tariff situation at all. Could Apple be thinking that selling authorized components for repair could be a decent backstop for declining iPhone sales to their most price-sensitive customers?
I could see how someone with reduced means would pay to have their iPhone repaired instead of buying a new one, if tariffs spiked the new iPhone prices up by, I dunno, say 20% for the sake of discussion.
I hear the Right to Repair end run argument, but that doesn't seem like it's necessarily the whole explanation to me.
- esturk 7y agoTotally. Apple even says that their services make more money than their hardware. But without the hardware, the services will also go down. Apple need to keep people in their wall garden. There's a threshold they need to keep at or else their influence will wane considerably like the Mac vs PC fight.