> apple's repair program is much more extensive than virtually any other phone vendor The Fairphone? The Framework? > OEM 16" XDR Liquid Retina screens have a

> apple's repair program is much more extensive than virtually any other phone vendor The Fairphone? The Framework? > OEM 16" XDR Liquid Retina screens have an estimated BOM cost of $250, versus applecare at $350. If you have a broken screen that costs you $100 with applecare or $450-750 without. So basically you are prepaying one screen and then if it happens you just pay cost of labor. Why is the range so variable? If part ($250) + labor ($100) is $350, why is the minimum $450 and how could the maximum possibly be $750? Where does this extra 100-400 dollar cost originate, if it's not only being applied artificially? > And that's why people like rossman complain when apple launched the self-service Who is Rossman? Maybe you're right here but the way you invoke this guy and claim his intent without stating his actual complaint makes it feel like you're attacking a strawman. From your post I gather that he wants to be able to use third party parts on the cheap if he would like and that the Apple system somehow impedes that, which seems valid. To be clear, I am of course against e-waste and very much in favor of having the right to repair my own devices with whatever parts I can make work. If Apple is swinging that way, great, but this post comes off as accusatory for a reason I'm having a hard time discerning. It's still hard to trust Apple on something like this when there is so much obvious money to be made by behaving subversively when it comes to pricing out their repairs.