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0 pointsstale20027y ago0 comments

It is not a trade-off.

Apple is instead purposely trying to make it more difficult to repair their devices.

This is evidenced because they ate lobbying against right to repair laws.

What possible, non bad faith reason could apple have for opposing people's right to repair their own property?

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toasterlovin7y ago· 2 in thread

They are lobbying against the right to repair laws because it will limit what they are able to do from a security standpoint. And, since basically nobody repairs their own machines anyway, it would be a damned shame if 100% of their users lost out on having the best security features possible because 0% of their users want to be able to repair their laptop.

bigbugbag7y ago

My experience is that about 75% of people owning an apple product would like to have serviced/repaired outside apple due to very long delay and overcharged prices.

stale2002OP7y ago

It doesn't limit anything.

All right to repair means is that everyone has a legal right to repair something, and apple can't sue you for getting around their restrictions using copywrite or whatever.

I don't think apple should be allowed to sue people for fixing things.

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