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> Louis would be first to tell you that it is all related. Would he, though? He seems more than happy that people think Apple seized a bunch of parts shipments
by hugosbaseball 5y ago
> Louis would be first to tell you that it is all related.
Would he, though? He seems more than happy that people think Apple seized a bunch of parts shipments because they don't "like" that he does repairs, as redditors are oft to repeat.
The real reason they seized the shipment of batteries was because he bought from a manufacturer who copied the battery packaging, right down to the Apple logos. The manufacturer passed them off as OEM parts and Rossman was happy to do the same.
Meanwhile iFixit doesn't sell new parts with Apple logos on them and somehow Apple has never even glanced at them...and they very, very clearly help more people actually repair their Apple shit by means of their very well written and illustrated guides.
I like him pushing on the R2R movement but the man is almost pathologically narcissistic and sometimes borders on con-man. He's like the RMS of R2R.
- sumtechguy 5y agoHe has said as much in many of his videos. Basically 'they all do it'.
- bmn__ 5y agoI resent that I have to spend a magnitude more effort to refute your misinformation than it took you to write. You are conflating the person whose shipment was seized, Henrik Huseby in Norway, with the person reporting on the story, Louis Rossmann (two "n"). The full story is that Rossmann initially believed that the parts were refurbished, so of course they would bear the Apple logo. When new information came later to light that the parts that Huseby bought from ShenZhen Excellent E-Commerce Co. Ltd. (DBA jacktele.com) were counterfeit, then Rossmann made not one, not two, but five follow-up videos to correct himself and present the new information. That is because he actually cares about being truthful. Chronological order: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNl2q6YZXlA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNl2q6YZXlA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ar2Gxw8mIQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ar2Gxw8mIQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKEdi6vXMrU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKEdi6vXMrU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMka8rNdOb8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMka8rNdOb8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzDE7ipLcW0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzDE7ipLcW0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j77CwYiBj6A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j77CwYiBj6A What do you stand to gain by adding the character attack at the end?