True Lee, others need to have the right to get into a product costing the developer billions to produce the chips, antenna, SSD’s, gyroscopes, etc. etc….
I see both sides, if Lee has brought to market his marvelous widget that has cost him a lifetime, failure after failure, it’s his mistress, his very being…now the smokestacks are cranking out his baby. Extra parts are being produced for repairs and sent to distribution…. Along comes Jonathan, knowing he can do the work on Lee’s brain child at a better price…so he prospers and Lee sees his profit going out the door. It’s inevitable, Apple will lose. Years ago Ford demanded that oil changes on their products be done at Ford or the warranty would be voided…well, that didn’t go well and the courts handed Ford their defeat… Aftermarket parts on cars under 5 years old have been decided by the courts, the consumer has the right to demand Original Equipment, after 5 years..out of luck… So, there will eventually be many shops that get to work on Apple products…it may be decided only in the courts… I see both sides, the consumer needs to be the winner which comes from choice.. John > On Oct 18, 2018, at 10:49 AM, Lee Larson <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Oct 17, 2018, at 10:19 PM, John Robinson <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >> From looking at his inventory it would appear he was still running a >> Blacksmith shop while society was traveling with the Jetson’s, therein lies >> the biggest hinderance. There isn’t much call for horseshoes. > > On the other hand, Apple has been making it very hard for independent repair > people to fix Apple devices. They’re doing this in several different ways. > First, the newer devices are not designed to be repaired. Second, they don’t > make parts easily available for third parties. Third, they don’t make the > technical details available for things like fingerprint sensors so third > parties can’t easily replace them or things around them. Fourth, they void > warranties at the drop of a hat after third-party repairs. > > Over a dozen states are considering “right to repair” laws in order to > mitigate some of this. Apple has been lobbying against these bills all over > the country. I think fighting such laws is anti-consumer and environmentally > egregious. > > L^2 > > --- > Lee Larson > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > > Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours. — > Yogi Berra, > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > Posting address: [email protected] > Archive: > <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.mail-2Darchive.com_macgroup-40erdos.math.louisville.edu_&d=DwIFaQ&c=OAG1LQNACBDguGvBeNj18Swhr9TMTjS-x4O_KuapPgY&r=F2GFXrjLFqVo3VwvIlo_XYeEiRRjHv15rxcenz7A21woG2aFGcrzndoSsskxfmOs&m=TrqIYZQM5Msmoicu0_huWNl6vmNHvhXQTHLmfCL1hts&s=JxjuC_loVUPspOsKEFUA8KoDV-LHNO0EdVpBCr3UoDs&e=> > Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
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