Alan C wrote:It does seem a bit unwarranted to me. As I understand it displays are reasonable to replace on an iPhone with the proper tools and considerations, compare that to what I was told about Samsung display replacement up to at least two years ago; even with a skilled technician the chances of cracking the display when trying to remove it was decidedly non-zero. They're a bastard to remove. It is unfortunate to see RAM and now SSDs being soldered to the mainboards now but it's not just Apple doing it, it's the way things are moving. I've personally serviced Dell and Lenovo laptops and plenty of them were bastards to fix as well, particularly certain Thinkpad models requiring almost complete disassembly to get to the mainboard or trying to replace a Yoga LCD without the fucking thing cracking.

I'm reminded of the stink caused with Foxxconn employee deaths a couple of years ago and the hate thrown at Apple, Foxxconn is a big company making things for other companies besides Apple but I don't recall seeing any criticism of these others. Criticise for sure but I'd suggest being wary of being one-eyed about it.

For the record I own a few Apple products, also I have a Ryzen/Nvidia PC [mainly for gaming] I've put together and I've assembled a modest intel workstation for the missus. I've dabbled in ubuntu and a Raspberry Pi 4. I was a die-hard Amiga user back in the day that wouldn't have anything to do with Wintel but the writing was on the wall near the end of the nineties so I held my nose and got a PC.

felltoearth wrote:Sorry, how are iPhones unrepairable? It’s the whole basis of the warrant, the refurbished phone market and the numerous phone repair shops within a stone’s throw of my house.

felltoearth wrote:Sorry, how are iPhones unrepairable? It’s the whole basis of the warrant, the refurbished phone market and the numerous phone repair shops within a stone’s throw of my house.


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blindfaith wrote:

it seems that the iPhones are in fact repairable but only authorized people who have apple tools and software to do so

We’ll see how this pans out because I don’t think Apple is necessarily 100% against repairability or fully into planned obsolescence given that a lot of their tech still works well long after a lot of other tech company’s products are essentially bricks.

blindfaith wrote:

it seems that the iPhones are in fact repairable but only authorized people who have apple tools and software to do so

Yes and who do you think those people are? i will give you a clue....Apple.

We’ll see how this pans out because I don’t think Apple is necessarily 100% against repairability or fully into planned obsolescence given that a lot of their tech still works well long after a lot of other tech company’s products are essentially bricks.

really? from what i have seen they are definitely 100% against repairability and fully into obsolescence, here is yet another example for you

I'm With Stupid wrote:This is a good video on planned obsolescence, which of course Apple makes an appearance:



But it starts with a cartel of lightbulb manufacturers deliberately making their products worse.