Right To Repair

[Mister Pink]

I've been casually following Louis Rossman and the right to repair movement over the last couple of years. 

 

Through Rossman's lens, him being a 3rd party Apple repair guy based in New York, he was shocked by Apple "experts" misdiagnosing faults and giving extortionate quotes on repairs. Basically repair costs amounted to "may as well buy a new product." Worse is that the repair could have been done for a fraction of the price if their was some accuracy and honesty in their diagnosis. 

 

Furthermore, for Apple repair vendors, Apple requires vendors to send faulty parts back to them before they send a replacement. This reduces and limits any chances of having any used Apple parts for those that want to do repairs. The whole system is designed to go through Apple Care so Apple can profit off the repair of their own faults. I remember one victim of Apple's stringent repair regulations, where the customer had an issue with either the GPU. Rather than replacing the GPU they were told, CPU, the GPU and the Logic-board are all connected so replacing the GPU means replacing all three. Of course the cost of this and the logic of it was ridiculous. 

 

Right to repair should give customers the right to choose where to get their electronics fixed. Apple having a near monopoly on their own repairs means there is no healthy competition and they can just charge anything. 

 

Good thing for the UK is that right to repair laws come in to effect this July 2021. 

Manufacturers of goods including washing machines, TVs and fridges will be mandated to do more to help customers repair them for longer from this week, under new Government rules.

https://www.edie.net/news/11/UK-s--right-to-repair--laws-come-into-force--in-bid-to-cut-electrical-waste/#:~:text=Waste %26 resource management-,UK's 'right to repair' laws come into force%2C in,bid to cut electrical waste&text=Manufacturers of goods including washing,week%2C under new Government rules.

 

I would advise anyone thinking of purchasing expensive electronics or Apple products to consider watching this video.

 

 

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An example of Apple trying to rip customers off. Basically the battery of the laptop wasn't connected correctly. So they wanted to charge her $475 to replace the Logicboard. Insane!

 

 

Edited July 9, 2021 by Mister Pink