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Well now I've seen everything. Any one else check on hell has it frozen over?
by kraig911 5y ago
Well now I've seen everything. Any one else check on hell has it frozen over?
- tada131 5y agoWe'll see actual prices on genuine replacements.
- traveler01 5y agoYeah, genuinely worried about this. We know Apple very well now, they'll be expensive af and will give them a reason to keep screwing over third party parts by introducing hardware locks.
- onphonenow 5y agoBecause a lot of third party parts are crap and we’re being used to scam folks. The battery warning is a good approach
- traveler01 5y agoWell I can agree with you, most of those third party parts could be even dangerous for the user, i.e faulty batteries blowing up.
- 88840-8855 5y agodon't worry, you havent seen the pricing yet :)
- ModernMech 5y agoNo but I did see a pig careening across the sky earlier. Thought nothing of it at the time but I think this explains everything.
- frankfrankfrank 5y agoCall me cynical all one wants, but I am not at all convinced this is motivated by some kind of altruism and the whole "inclusion" corporate propaganda tinge of the copy/images makes me even more suspicious of the manipulative corporate motivation of this move. I see what you are doing, Apple. Unless I missed something, there is no talk of lowering the price by the cost of labor for, e.g., a $270 screen replacement. So my assumption is that you get to do an amateur screen replacement for the same price while also assuming the risk and liability of messing something up. I even wonder if this is a kind of counter-punch against the right to repair movement so Apple, et al., can claim, "see, we allow repairs"; while it really just serves to take the wind out of the sails of the right to repair movement in the halls of Congress and the bureaucratic demons in DC.
- danaris 5y agoI mean...does it matter what Apple's motives are for this?
- smoldesu 5y agoNo, because their intentions are clear enough. They want to keep their iron grip on their supply chain, which is why they'll only ship you complete assemblies that cost $500+ instead of the charging IC that costs $3 OEM.
- danaris 5y agoIt's certainly possible that that's the reason for it, but it's predicated on various assumptions. It's also completely possible that the reason they're selling complete assemblies instead of individual ICs is because a) even they don't replace individual ICs, because it's fiddly, more likely to cause further problems, and requires keeping a stock of a lot of different individual chips, and b) they genuinely believe that there's not enough people who would be able to do that replacement (regardless of willingness) for it to be worthwhile. Personally? I think it's some of both.
- frankfrankfrank 5y agoIt depends on what your interests are. Motivations are a higher order from intentions and can inform on future actions or reveal patterns of behavior. To the other reply; I would say that Apple retaining it's iron grip on exorbitant profit margins and the supply chain is the motivation, and the intention is to do so by the subject method that will undermine the threat to that not controlling the right-to-repair narrative would represent. This is not something that Apple decided in a vacuum or even as it relates to the USA. Apple is surely looking at this with the lessons it has learned as it relates to how the EU has been behaving and its motivations too. Not to belittle anyone, but the upper echelons of Apple and their servant army of attorneys operate from Mt Olympus and have a far wider aperture than most of us mere mortals have, regardless of how broadly we believe we understand a relatively narrow focus like how this relates to goings on in the USA alone.
- tobyhinloopen 5y agoI think I saw some pigs fly