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Re:Apple's Proprietary Software Locks Kill Independent Repai... by paxy on Thursday October 04, 2018 @09:25PM (#18145028)
The repair market for Apple products isn't huge precisely because Apple has done everything it can to kill it.
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Re:Apple's Proprietary Software Locks Kill Independent Repai... by paulie_a on Thursday October 04, 2018 @09:41PM (#18145085)
The repair market for apple laptops is probably small anyways because apple is a small fish in that market. Why bother?
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Re:Apple's Proprietary Software Locks Kill Independent Repai... by parrellel on Thursday October 04, 2018 @10:01PM (#18145174)
Because your three thousand dollar laptop has shat the bed, and you couldn't shell out for Apple Care or they failed to help in proper corporate fashion.

If they weren't actively shitting on repair companies, I'd say there'd be more of a market.

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Re:Apple's Proprietary Software Locks Kill Independent Repai... by paulie_a on Saturday October 06, 2018 @07:29AM (#18154587)
Apple has never been a major player regardless of this. They never will be. That goes back for decades and they barely have moved the needle. They are the artisanal version of computers.
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