I understand it can be difficult to have someone point out that you're not approaching a situation in good faith, but that's not exactly "relentless insults".

I understand it can be difficult to have someone point out that you're not approaching a situation in good faith, but that's not exactly "relentless insults". It can be difficult to handle the intimation that maybe there is the mirror image of the "brainless apple sheeple" too. Haters exist - people who are not able to approach a situation fairly and are just relentlessly negative because they hate X thing too. Negative parasocial attachment is just as much of a thing as a positive one. And when you get to the point of "literally making the tools available is bad because the pelican cases are too heavy" you have crossed that rubicon. I am being very very polite here, but you are not being rational, and you are kinda having an emotional spasm over someone disagreeing with you on the internet. Yes, if you want OEM parts and you rent OEM tooling it's probably going to come close to OEM cost. That isn't discriminatory, if the prices are fair+reasonable, and objectively they pretty much are. $49 to rent the tools, and have them shipped both ways, etc, is not an unreasonable ask. Not having a viable business model for your startup doesn't mean the world is wrong. It means you don't have a viable business idea. And yeah, if you are renting the tools as a one-off, and counting your personal time as having some value (or labor cost in a business), then you probably are not going to get costs that are economical with a large-scale operator with a chain operation and an assembly-line repair shop with repair people who do nothing but repair that one brand. That's not Apple's fault. What we ultimately come down to with your argument is "apple is killing right-to-repair by being too good at repair and providing too cheap repairs such that indie shops can no longer make a margin" and I'm not sure that's actionable in a social sense of preventing e-waste. People getting their hardware repaired cheaply is good. Long parts lifetimes are good. Etc. Being able to swap in shitty amazon knockoff parts is a whole separate discussion, of course. And afaik that is going to be forced by the EU anyway, consequences be damned. So what are you complaining about here?