If someone gets hurt using an Apple product it’s international news [1] and everyone ignores the reports 5 days later when it shown they were using a counterfeit. So I can understand why Apple would care. Keep in mind this article is about bringing repairs to Mac. The 16” MBP has a 100WHr Lithium-Polymer battery. That thing is no joke.
[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-new...
You can replace pretty much everything in your car which are literally killing machines and yet everything seems to be doing ok why give Apple this special treatment?
Note, whether or not Apple should sell, or be forced to sell, parts is a different question and conversation.
For car accidents there is usually human action or inaction at fault. It is possible for parts to be at fault but that's the minority of cases.
For phone injuries it is usually a faulty part at fault.
If someone sharpened their iPhone and went on a killing spree I don't think anyone would be asking which parts are inside.
Note that I support the right to repair. I just don't think this particular analogy is a good one.
PS: Don't post AMP links, they cause cancer. De-AMP'ed link follows:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/iphone-5-owner-ma-a...
Dell doesn't sell most parts to the public.
HP and Lenovo theoretically do, but you've got probably 50%+ odds of the part you want either being perpetually unavailable/OOS or priced insanely if you try to buy direct.
You can definitely do whatever you want to the machine. And the audit prevents my parents got scammed by those individual shops. eg. Paid the price for a genius battery but got a counterfeit from China.
I am sick of arguments "for" consumer protection here. There is no chocolate pudding if someone shits on your plate. Sure there is QA, but not in the interest of consumers for any replaceable part.
As someone who has quite a lot of apple phones in my hands, the genuine Chinese batteries die as frequently as the not genuine Chinese batteries. They both smell nicely like bubblegum at least.
Control.
