Keyboard Service Program for MacBook and MacBook Pro

Re:Keyboard Service Program for MacBook and MacBook Pro by smallnamespace on Saturday June 23, 2018 @01:41AM (#17379728)

The problem isn't doing the math, it's only doing the math based on the company's incentives.

If it were instead: multiply by the average cost to society, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one., then this is probably the best you can do (if you're a utilitarian)

On the other hand, society does have a responsibility to make sure the incentives on the company reflect what is actually important.

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Re:Keyboard Service Program for MacBook and MacBook Pro by pjmlp on Saturday June 23, 2018 @02:00AM (#17379771)

We do, that is when we decide to buy stuff from someone else.

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Re:Keyboard Service Program for MacBook and MacBook Pro by rbanffy on Saturday June 23, 2018 @07:50AM (#17380827)

And all my Magsafe bricks around the house won't help Apple selling me a new MacBook in the future.

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Re:Keyboard Service Program for MacBook and MacBook Pro by swozey on Saturday June 23, 2018 @11:52AM (#17381795)

Just went through this and donglegate. The one saving grace is I can now charge my Android phone from my laptop charger and the cable is removable and USB. Now I just need to get rid of my other 40 microUSB devices. Course now I'm worried about voltage regulation and plugging in something and zapping it but I'm assuming USB-C has safeguards in place. As in plugging my headphones into my laptop charger brick via USB-C, etc.

I think we might finally hit a point in time where everything starts to be USB powered and not proprietary cables plugging into bricks (ha yeah right).

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Re:Keyboard Service Program for MacBook and MacBook Pro by mcintyre1994 on Saturday June 23, 2018 @12:50PM (#17382079)

Can't plug an iPhone into it though.. and unless they've switched it up since I bought mine you get a USB-A to lightning cable, so you can't plug it into the laptop either without a dongle. :)

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Re:Keyboard Service Program for MacBook and MacBook Pro by rbanffy on Sunday June 24, 2018 @09:33AM (#17386488)

Eventually the wireless charger of the next iPhone (the one without any external connection) and watch will be USB powered.

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Re:Keyboard Service Program for MacBook and MacBook Pro by swozey on Saturday June 23, 2018 @04:19PM (#17383230)

Forgot about that. Hilarious. It charges FAST.

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Re:Keyboard Service Program for MacBook and MacBook Pro by golergka on Saturday June 23, 2018 @11:14AM (#17381622)

We do exactly that when the judges decide on the monetary amount of fines. So, in the end, I don't see a problem with these calculations from a utilitarian perspective.

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