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Jacking up repair prices to force you into a subscription sounds like an extortion racket to me :/
by izacus 4y ago
Jacking up repair prices to force you into a subscription sounds like an extortion racket to me :/
- yesUgotit 4y ago
- smoldesu 4y agoTim Apple built his computer so that if I bump it off my waist-height table, it will shatter into a million pieces and I'll be out >$500. Conveniently, Tim Apple also sells a peace-of-mind insurance policy that replaces your Mac no-questions-asked. Does this create a conflict of interests that encourages them to design fragile display assemblies, unfixable Logic Boards and un-upgradeable storage? You decide!
- yesUgotit 4y agoAfter butterfly keyboards and graphics card recalls, I think Apple has learned some lessons about selling crap.
- solarkraft 4y ago> Free market charges what it must Apple charges what they can because the market isn't free.
- throwaway1777 4y agoHow is the market not free? Apple is not even close to a monopoly in the laptop space
- abrouwers 4y agoIf my screen breaks, and I need a new screen, apple is the ONLY one who can provide the part.
- kube-system 4y agoNot true, you can get new panels from third parties.
- abrouwers 4y agoI googled (briefly), but couldn't find anything on an m1 MacBook air, for example. How do prices compare to Apple?
- kube-system 4y agoSearch “M1 MacBook Air LCD” on Amazon, eBay, or aliexpress and there are dozens of options around $250
- yesUgotit 4y agoBut not the only laptop vendor to choose from. There’s a free market to sell laptops in. What terms are attached are up to the consumer to consider. Many people are happy with Apples terms. That some technologists are not is not evidence of a conspiracy. Contemporary problem solving does not have to contort itself to the philosophy and nostalgia of some computer nerds. Same as we don’t have to kowtow to a Bible; it’s not about the what but who; present/future meat bags don’t owe past meat bags. No one asked to be born.
- stale2002 4y ago,> There’s a free market to sell laptops in. But there is not a free market for Apple laptop repairs. That is the unfree market. So yes, that specific market is not free.
- yesUgotit 4y agoApple and customer are free to set the terms of their relationship without your input. Freedom from, freedom to; law is semantic games not physics. You have the rights agreed upon by the rule makers. Currently the free market you envision is not the status quo. The only mechanism allowed in our social system to change that is vote em out or build a company that works how you want. Posting here is equivalent to echo “impotent rage” /dev/null imo