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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

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.