Thankfully Jonathan was able to take it to an independent repair shop for a $75 CAD adhesive fix (and battery replacement?) despite Apple’s restrictions against them.
my dad is 64.
last week when i spoke to him, he told me he broke the screen on his iPhone. he told me that he called a fixit place and they wanted $100 for the repair
man that he is, he went on eBay and bought a screen repair kit and did it himself
That’s a Swanson move right there. My ovaries can’t take this amount of manhood!
The watch is made in a highly automated environment with super cheap labor. The repair is done by somebody earning a multitude of that labor. Not condoning this in the slightest, but I can understand the economics behind it.
The economics behind it is that if they can make you buy a new one, they make more money than if you repair it.
Boycott Apple. Like they got you, they’ve tricked you into using whatever hardware of theirs you own…but that doesn’t mean you have to buy Apple next time.
Anything android that has lineage or similar community support. It’s not the same but you won’t have your balls getting squeezed by apple
Honestly. At this point trying to save the environment is too late, but it would be nice now that some politics are finally heading in that direction, if this anti-repair bullshit would be legislated out of existence.
Add a cost on carbon emissions, and fine companies that manufacture things that aren’t designed to be repaired.
If I buy something, I ought own it and have the final say with who does what with my property. I don’t care if Samapplesoftabet decides that they don’t like it, if they want so much control over my thing they should buy it back from me.
It’s not too late to save the environment. This is a defeatist attitude that has no place I’m the fight. If you don’t try, then you can’t save shit. We are by no means past the point of no return.
Exactly! Stages of climate change denial:
1 it doesn’t exist
2 we aren’t causing it
3 it isn’t that bad
4 we can’t solve it
5 it’s too late now (so might as well go on consuming oil)
Ah, the Sir Humphrey method.
Everyone who still buys apple products just wants to be bent over at this point…
Oh my god shut up. Every major company does this.
