What do you mean by that? Rossmann talks about what he doesn't know all the time. He's not an engineer, yet he thinks he can proclaim that Apple is terrible at engineering and runs with it as a foregone conclusion, without ever having an actual engineer take a look or play Devil's Advocate. This seems irresponsible considering the size of his platform, weakens his argument, and is also odd considering many engineers would happily do a guest appearance.

Also, Rossmann clearly views himself as a Right to Repair leader. Fair enough. But if you are going to be a leader of a broad movement, you have to be willing to speak about issues that plague broader computing, not laser-focus on one company when others are doing similar or even worse faux pas.

Have you been actually paying attention to the actual right to repair content? It is still relatively Apple heavy, because that's his business, but he's had medical device repair people on, and he's talked about the much broader scope of the issue basically every single time. I'm very confused by this criticism tbh.

Yes, he talks about John Deere, or medical devices, but he never talks about HP, Lenovo, Dell, Surface, Acer, or any PC manufacturer flaws, many of which have flaws worse than Apple's. This is what makes him look dishonest because laptop repair is his specialty - he should be awesome at detecting or pointing out how they have problems too, but he caters to the PC crowd and says nothing.

Here's how you replace the RAM on Dell's ultraportable line: https://www.ifixit.com/Device/Dell_XPS_15_9550

The last Intel Macbook Pro? Get out your soldering iron: https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook+Pro+16-Inch+2019+Tea...

Similarly, if you want to replace/upgrade/perform data recovery for the storage? https://www.windowscentral.com/upgrade-ssd-dell-xps-15-9570

Apple? Forget about it. Hope you paid the inflated storage prices at the time you bought it.

That's not what I was talking about. I was talking about how if your Surface has a problem with screens spontaneously cracking, will Rossmann even mention it? He won't. He knows his crowd, and he keeps quiet about criticizing his crowd's products.

Also, this myth that Apple storage prices are inflated needs to die. The SSD speeds are unlike PC SSD speeds on all but the most expensive PCs, and Microsoft charges more for their SSDs on the Surface line.

"Yes, he talks about John Deere, or medical devices, but he never talks about HP, Lenovo, Dell, Surface, Acer, or any PC manufacturer flaws, many of which have flaws worse than Apple's. This is what makes him look dishonest because laptop repair is his specialty - he should be awesome at detecting or pointing out how they have problems too, but he caters to the PC crowd and says nothing." - gjsman-1000 [1]

"He won't. He knows his crowd, and he keeps quiet about criticizing his crowd's products." - gjsman-1000 [2]

"Alright, so today we're going to be taking a look at the new Surface and by taking a look at I mean watching somebody else's YouTube video on the new Surface because hell if I'm going to be walking in to buy one of these pieces of crap." - Louis Rossman [3]

Rossman's video continues for a half hour to bash the Surface Laptop's lack of repair-ability and general poor design...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27257606

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27258123

[3] https://youtu.be/yswp0Bio4Oo

He literally did a video about Asus 4 days ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e48eYElm1R8