Re:YouTuber and Repair Specialist Louis Rossmann Alludes to ...
by ericabiz on Friday July 01, 2016 @10:57PM
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The articles and comments indicate that his posting of schematics appears to be the concern, not his ranting about Apple or his repairing of said devices.
As a repair shop owner, this is some serious BS. After watching several hours of videos on YouTube, including some of Louis's, we invested in some industrial equipment that fixes seriously water-damaged iPhones, and I invested some time in learning the whole process.
This week alone, since we got the equipment, I've managed to fully restore 3 iPhones that wouldn't even turn on because they had been dunked in water. These tutorials, along with the equipment and our own knowledge gained from thousands of phones we've repaired, will help us make our customers happy every week.
Apple Store won't even touch water-damaged phones--they just tell you to buy a new one (or sell you an "in-kind replacement.") Now, with this knowledge, we're able to fix 70-80% of the water damaged phones we get in, and usually for about 1/3 the cost of buying a new one.
People keep their lives on their phones and laptops these days, and no matter how much we techies tell them to back their data up, many people don't. If I can rescue a phone or a computer that wouldn't turn on before I repaired it, I can make someone's day hugely brighter. People like Louis who shoot these videos help make this possible.
I really hope we can get these Right to Repair laws passed so people continue to have a choice in where and how their devices get repaired.
Re:YouTuber and Repair Specialist Louis Rossmann Alludes to ...
by wanderingjew on Friday July 01, 2016 @10:41PM
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The article does not confirm Mr. Rossmann is facing legal action by Apple, and despite the word 'alludes' in the headline, the article itself is extremely disingenuous:
"Apple isn't happy about it."
"[I]t's clear that Louis has been threatened by Apple"
"Apple appears to not only want his YouTube channel removed, but his business terminated."
"Apple is successful, free speech will have lost yet another major battle"
None of these statements are supported by either Mr Rossmann or Apple; in the relevant video, Mr Rossmann does not even mention Apple.
As a repair shop owner, this is some serious BS. After watching several hours of videos on YouTube, including some of Louis's, we invested in some industrial equipment that fixes seriously water-damaged iPhones, and I invested some time in learning the whole process.
This week alone, since we got the equipment, I've managed to fully restore 3 iPhones that wouldn't even turn on because they had been dunked in water. These tutorials, along with the equipment and our own knowledge gained from thousands of phones we've repaired, will help us make our customers happy every week.
Apple Store won't even touch water-damaged phones--they just tell you to buy a new one (or sell you an "in-kind replacement.") Now, with this knowledge, we're able to fix 70-80% of the water damaged phones we get in, and usually for about 1/3 the cost of buying a new one.
People keep their lives on their phones and laptops these days, and no matter how much we techies tell them to back their data up, many people don't. If I can rescue a phone or a computer that wouldn't turn on before I repaired it, I can make someone's day hugely brighter. People like Louis who shoot these videos help make this possible.
I really hope we can get these Right to Repair laws passed so people continue to have a choice in where and how their devices get repaired.
"Apple isn't happy about it."
"[I]t's clear that Louis has been threatened by Apple"
"Apple appears to not only want his YouTube channel removed, but his business terminated."
"Apple is successful, free speech will have lost yet another major battle"
None of these statements are supported by either Mr Rossmann or Apple; in the relevant video, Mr Rossmann does not even mention Apple.
This is all idle speculation. Even HN was caught up in the Apple blaming, despite a complete lack of supporting evidence: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12016253
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7N254MTA4Q