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Pluralistic: Apple fucked us on right to repair (again) (pluralistic.net)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Right to repair has no cannier, more dedicated adversary than Apple, a company whose most innovative work is dreaming up new ways to sneakily sabotage electronics repair while claiming to be a caring environmental steward, a lie that covers up the mountains of e-waste that Apple dooms our descendants to wade through.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean they could instead realise the market for replacement parts....

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I get what you're saying, but what is the return on those, though? Does it compare to the returns selling a phone? I mean, it could be better returns selling parts, but companies as big as Apple tend to get moribund in their view of the revenue stream. The current model works, so why mess with it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The smartest thing to do would be to bake in more profit percentage on the parts compared to the phone. Doesn't seem all that complicated for them honestly.