They are moving SOME production out of China, but they will never totally pull out.

Hey Apple, why don’t you build more of your products over there!

All they are doing is shifting the responsibility and liability into you.

They want to control the discussion about R2R. Rather than having pro-consumer groups set the rules, they rather have their influence dictate the rules to R2R from the inside. They know that participating in the process both makes them look good, but also let’s them control the discussion.

They want you using authorized Apple parts using authorized Apple tools and installing authorized Apple software. But using your labor to do it. Probably one of the biggest bottlenecks in the phone repair chain is the labor to open up and repair the phone. So for Apple it is a win-win to off-load that manual labor onto the user. If they fuck up the phone, then it is a win for Apple because that person now needs a new phone. If the repair goes successfully, it is still a win for Apple because the user is still locked into their ecosystem and they just bought some highly marked-up parts and didn’t give more work to their probably overloaded repair supply chain.

Whata the draw? What makes you pick Apple over something else?

I hate how accurate this probably is.

You mean magic rings?! Or maybe they’ll be called i-rings.

They’ll come up with some stupid ass name like that to make it seem like it is a proprietary thing. Man, I hate that company so much.

It is called a rubber o-ring.

That’s how other companies have been making water-tight compartments for batteries and other things for literally decades now. But all of a sudden, Apple wants to pretend this is some unsolvable problem. For fucks sakes stop acting like this is some insane ask, goddamn it.

No other government body is as consumer-friendly as the EU, so I really hope this bill passes and forces Apple to comply. I am so sick of the bullshit from these megacorporations who are so big they just don’t give a flying fuck about what consumers want. And on the flipside, there are going to be a million Apple apologists who will side with Apple on this topic. Those bootlickers only make things worse for everyone.

I’ve been following this for a while because even though I have a small lawn, lawncare is easily one of my least favorite activities.

I also would suggest thi8s gets reposted to other tool/gardening/homeowner related subs too.