One man’s fight for the right to repair broken MacBooks

Re:One man’s fight for the right to repair broken MacBooks by spamizbad on Sunday May 23, 2021 @07:46PM (#27259690)

Right to repair would actually ease this burden: Apple manufactures very few components on its devices. Apple prevents its suppliers from selling to third parties (which wouldn’t necessarily be a repair shop but someone like digikey or mouser) of some pretty basic components that do not contain any real secret sauce (we are talking about things like voltage regulators here)

The auto industry has widespread part available for decades with no ill effects.

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Re:One man’s fight for the right to repair broken MacBooks by creato on Monday May 24, 2021 @12:35AM (#27261103)

> The auto industry has widespread part available for decades with no ill effects.

That depends on who you ask. Car dealerships probably think they have suffered great ill effects from the existence of independent repair shops.

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Re:One man’s fight for the right to repair broken MacBooks by asddubs on Monday May 24, 2021 @03:28AM (#27261843)

I suspect trying to garner sympathy from people for dealerships is going to be a hard sell

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Re:One man’s fight for the right to repair broken MacBooks by creato on Monday May 24, 2021 @04:25AM (#27262142)

I agree. And I'm comparing car dealerships to Apple :)

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