Apple Reacts to Repair “Propaganda” Claims




Apple’s interview with YouTuber Marques Brownlee about repairability has been called “propaganda” and “lies” by Louis …

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  1. I got a Zephorus m16 with a 4080 in it.

    The first thing I did when I got it was took out like 6 screws, installed another Ssd that was 2 tb I got for under $300, and put it back together.

    I just tripled the storage of my $3k laptop in under 10 minutes and could also replace the battery that way.

    I can also add more ram to it for another $200 to double it.

    I didn’t have to pay an extra $2k to upgrade the ram and storage of my laptop. While I’m not sure how confident I would be relaxing the gpu or cpu, at least if I do try it I won’t get an error for unregistered parts being installed.

  2. Oh no! You broke the proprietary connector we hid under 40 screws while trying to repair your computer?

    Well now you have to throw it in the bin and buy an entirely new device. Because we all know the Earth has infinite resources and by no means should we try to preserve our precious resources.

  3. Oh no! You broke the proprietary connector we hid under 40 screws while trying to repair your computer?

    Well now you have to throw it in the bin and buy an entirely new device. Because we all know the Earth has infinite resources and by no means should we try to preserve our precious resources.

  4. That repairability/durability thing is bananas. The cars we used to make could be repaired very easily with percussion maintenance, and were as durable as the steel was to erosion. As in they didn't break, they just fell apart in the end.

  5. seems like people dont know what propaganda means these days….. or any other days actually, being under the influence of it… sad.

  6. There's a dongle for that, oh and if you try and repair and or customise your machine we will lock your firmware. Crapple is what crapple does. 😘

  7. I WANT thic hardware! Robust, with a strong cooling solution, expendable with a lot of ports and internal slots, AND repairable! Like it was in about 2005! Today's technology is utter garbage!

  8. Making use of big influencers for sure improves Apple's reparability a lot! How are their far east employess btw? Still commiting suicide in a lot?

  9. Rossman is right though. Companies like Samsung, Future Motion, Apple, etc. will dodge legitimate customer concerns/questions/criticism on repairability and planned obsolescence and will generate canned responses when they get caught with their pants down. All devices should have a removable battery at a minimum.

  10. As a repair technician that repairs Apple products I'm curious to know how an average person will calibrate their iPhone screens & batteries with Apple's AST2 software 🤔

  11. I can't get halfway thru this video without shaking my head, cuz this guy is clearly biased 🙄. One of two things are possible, either he knows he's being decieatful or he is ignorant to all the anticonsumer policies of apple such as not allowing the easy removal and replacement of the battery.

  12. Apple used to make products with longevity and backwards compatibility in mind. While still good they definitely are on the engineered obsolescence bandwagon and their customer service and warranty has declined too.

  13. 2:59 — wait, why did apple insist on (I assume more expensive) butterfly switches over its own scissor switches? They are not THAT MUCH thicker that it requires a ChonkBook-16 size.

    I totally understand why they don't fix simple things like $0.0001 more expensive soldering, or $0.01 more expensive flexboards, and especially more expensive redesigning of PCB layouts— changes to factory tooling or techniques or even simple changes to operating manuals for assembly— all cost more than $0.00. And if they cannot profit, they will not change.
    But if you already have the tools, components, assembly, everything else…why not charge for the difference and put the same keyboard found in 16in-MBP…into the MB? You can market the F out of it, and charge $50 for a $1.00 increase in production.

    Steve Jobs warned about Marketing Departments taking over tech companies. That's never been more evident than today, where established, working Apps and services, are changed by incompetent, sociopathic narcissist managers, who don't know any history, don't understand why things that work—are used, and insist on "telling their story and their truth" and the 1 remaining engineer— who wouldnt speak up even if someone sat on them for an 18-hour flight, and ate a bucket of asparagus and beans— he just does his best, thus ruining anything and everything, even simple, set-in-stone technology.

    Anyway, google Vault 7, or read/listen to Whitney Webb's investigative journalism piece into the strange connections between DAARPA's "Lifebook" (or w.e.) and the subsequent Facebook, and why they shut it down and invested in Mark Zoidberg.
    Then realize that this house built on lies, is infested with incompetence termites, that'll chew through the foundation, even though they cannot digest wood themselves (termites rely on a parasitic bacteria in their gut to digest wood and leave sustenance).

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