Apple support their version of right to repair.
You have the right to repair your Apple device on their terms, with their overpriced tools, with their overpriced parts, following their restrictive terms, and authenticate almost every repair with Apple.
If you try and get a part from another supplier, or source your own genuine parts from dead devices that’s going to cause “bugs”, like faceID or auto brightness not working if you have the audacity to repair “their” device.
They’re also going to work like hell to use any loophole that allows them to deny self repair.
Remember, it’s Apple’s device, you’re just using it.
Yes, this reads jaded as hell. But given all the things Apple have done to deny self or 3rd party repair it’s hardly lies.
Credit where it is due though… they could have remained silent and probably taken no flak… so good on them.
Their big request seems to be to make sure people are aware when a phone is fixed with off-brand parts. This also makes sense to me. Some portion of off brand parts will cause problems, which may show up as complaints back to or about Apple.
(An example: we have a system trained to map rail territory using head-end video using some visual odometery and 2010-era AI. A specific client has cameras that we can’t process well because of weird subtle artifacts. Apple is doing much more complicated stuff than we are.)
No. No credit.
This is the old embrace and extend strategy. They know they are losing the argument, so they’ll embrace it and redirect to a version they control. It’s good for them, not the consumer.
In microelectonics, there’s not really such a thing as an “off brand part”. Nearly all the parts that matter in an iPhone are custom. You’re not going to buy just any old camera module and shoehorn it in. It won’t physically fit, and it likely won’t support the right commands. If somebody makes one specific for the iPhone, well… Look at that… It meets the specification.
Even if it does become an issue because (for example) the optics aren’t exactly the same and face ID doesn’t work, would someone complain to Apple or the repair shop that didn’t do an effective repair?
Really, because of the custom nature of most components, what Apple is trying to stop is the canibilisation of iPhones to fix other iPhones. That would give old broken iPhones value. Only Apple is allowed to exploit that value.
Sounds like a classic EEE scheme. There’s no way in hell apple would actually support this without ulterior motives.
I think it’s to save face since they’re going to have to in the EU anyway, what better way to get good PR than to pretend you’ve had a change of heart and make more sales in the process
Turning it into the car parts/repair scam, …er business.
What’s wrong with the bill?
Apple doesn’t profit from expensive repairs anymore if it’s easy to repair for everyone
This is the best summary I could come up with:
In a letter dated August 22, Apple showed its support for California’s right-to-repair bill, SB 244, after spending years combatting DIY repair efforts.
As reported by TechCrunch, the letter, written to California state Senator Susan Eggman, declared that Apple supports SB 244 and urged the legislature to pass it.
California’s final bill “should balance device integrity, usability, and physical safety” with the right to repair, Apple’s letter reportedly says.
Apple’s letter is a reverse-course on the battle against right-to-repair efforts that it’s been fighting for a decade, as noted via Repair.org Executive Director Gay Gordon-Byrne through a US PIRG press release Wednesday.
That includes in California, where in 2019, The Verge and Motherboard reported that an Apple representative met with legislators, encouraging them to kill a right-to-repair bill over alleged consumer safety concerns.
Nathan Proctor, senior director of US Public Interest Research Group’s (PIRG’s) Right to Repair Campaign, wagered a guess to Ars:
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Uh no, hell did not freeze over.
You would have to be insanely naive to think Apple didn’t change anything to make the bill practically useless against them.
