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Apple in the US kinda stopped doing repairs. They used to replace screens but now they just give you a new iPhone or iPad.
by wil421 5y ago
Apple in the US kinda stopped doing repairs. They used to replace screens but now they just give you a new iPhone or iPad.
- lotsofpulp 5y agoI assume at some point, technology becomes so integrated and tiny that it no longer makes sense to do repairs.
- ncmncm 5y agoBy which you mean it makes them more money to sell you a new thing than to make repairs possible. I had a Mac 512K, and later a Mac SE/30, where I ran A/UX. I would never, ever buy any Apple product, today, under any circumstance.
- etchalon 5y agoI don't believe that's true. Apple has always had a much more wholesale replacement strategy than other manufacturers. Even back in my CompUSA days, when I was the "Mac guy" in the shop, the other techs lamented how much easier my job was. There was a whole range of problems that Apple classified as a full system swap, where someone like HP would have replaced one or two components. They're still replacing screens, depending on the break. I had a screen replacement last year on my 12. It was just the screen. I believe they're more conservative about screen replacements though, and have a deep enough supply of refurb devices the math might just work out that it's faster/cheaper to just hand the consumer a new device.