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I mean...does it matter what Apple's motives are for this?

smoldesu 5y ago
No, 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 ago
  It'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.
  - smoldesu 5y ago
    Neither of those are really sufficient reasons though, if they didn't want to channel people through their expensive, first-party repairs then they wouldn't lock down their supply chain so hard.
    - danaris 5y ago
      They're not sufficient reasons to you.
frankfrankfrank 5y ago
It 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.

No, 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 ago
It'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.
- smoldesu 5y ago
  Neither of those are really sufficient reasons though, if they didn't want to channel people through their expensive, first-party repairs then they wouldn't lock down their supply chain so hard.
  - danaris 5y ago
    They're not sufficient reasons to you.

frankfrankfrank 5y ago

It 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.