Apple expands Self Service Repair to Mac notebooks

Re:Apple expands Self Service Repair to Mac notebooks by dataflow on Monday August 22, 2022 @10:35AM (#32552021)

> As a hypothetical, suppose the camera glass or lens was made with materials or a technique that caused it to be 90% of a phone’s cost to produce. Then replacing this item would cost >90% of the phone’s price, even though it is “small”.

When I say there are people who do the repair for much cheaper I mean including the price they pay for the part, not merely their labor. Your hypothetical is not the case here.

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Re:Apple expands Self Service Repair to Mac notebooks by lotsofpulp on Monday August 22, 2022 @10:38AM (#32552065)

I addressed that with this portion of the original comment :

>Of course, the ability for only one entity to source and supply those will tilt the scales towards a higher price

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Re:Apple expands Self Service Repair to Mac notebooks by dataflow on Monday August 22, 2022 @10:42AM (#32552157)

I don't get how that addresses anything. Maybe they're "tilted" toward a "higher" price, but until you put actual numbers on these (are we talking $10 higher or $1000 higher?) it doesn't say anything. I'm saying that, for a wide variety of common repairs, it is a fact that you can literally get the exact same repair done for the exact same issue (parts, labor, everything being the same) for far less (literally hundreds) than Apple does it for you. And I'm talking about profitable businesses here, not charities. There's no need to give hypothetical academic rebuttals on economics when the facts are clear on the ground.

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