> Think about a CPU - are you arguing that you need to be able to repair a broken pin on the socket? No, because a CPU is not a line-replaceable unit on Apple

> Think about a CPU - are you arguing that you need to be able to repair a broken pin on the socket? No, because a CPU is not a line-replaceable unit on Apple hardware. Nobody, not Louis Rossman, not Apple-certified repair stores, and not street-shops in Shenzhen are doing SOC-level repairs. It is a complete red-herring example that almost makes me question how serious you take this, accusing others of using "BS reasons." > So basically the number of repairable parts in electronics is shrinking due to improvements in manufacturing. That's really tangential to the point. Integrated components can still be replaced with donor parts (or OEM replacements) if each component isn't DRM-matched to a phone. Apple goes out of their way to deliberately stop their systems from being repaired by others, and it doesn't stop at miniaturization. > it's still waaaay to early to say they're doing nothing. If someone is doing nothing, you're never too early to call them out on it. We're not waiting for Apple to get the memo, they have had three years to anticipate this legislation and the only thing they seem interested in doing is pissing and moaning in a PDF while trying to get their last petty jabs in against Spotify and Epic: https://developer.apple.com/security/complying-with-the-dma.pdf https://developer.apple.com/security/complying-with-the-dma.... Apple is doing nothing, you can't piss on my back and tell me it's raining.