A few hours. I have completely and totally failed at getting anyone to care about this, or at creating meaningful change. I'll still try though. Until the end, I will try..

This already happens, do you believe that people do not try to fix their phone or laptop using parts from ebay and youtube videos as it is? Do you think farmers do not already open their own tractors?

They do. They just have to pay someone to come out to reset an error code so it'll actually run afterwards.

You are assuming that we do not already live in a world where farmers open up and mess with their own equipment to make it work again whenever they get the chance, which is far from reality.

Magnuson moss doesn't mean the company can't void the warranty if you work on your own stuff. It simply means the burden of proof is on the manufacturer to prove the damage was caused by you.

If you replace your hard drive with an SSD, the manufacturer can't void your warranty in your laptop because you replaced the drive.

If you replace your heatsink/fan with a dildo, the manufacturer can void your warranty in your laptop, by pointing to the dildo that is in place of the heatsink/fan and saying "you caused it to overheat by installing a dildo in here."

We frequently deny warranty when we can demonstrably prove that someone fucked up their own shit on their own.

I would say if this is does not constitute educational fair use than I do not know what is. You can only see tiny snippets, you are missing all of the information required to actually design this product.

I am kinda surprised that made the headline myself.

what I find particularly amusing is that in 2013-2014 they finally figured it out. 2015-2016 machines use almost the same designs but the fans don't spin up for an additional 10-20c over the older models... WHY!!! :(

I suppose I should rejoice at error 53, GPU failures with no extended warranty, and touch IC flaws. Thank you for creating a device where the touchIC becomes desoldered from the board right outside of warranty. God bless your souls!!!

No, man. When something isn't the way it should be, you say something about it.

I would say the title could have used some work... it's jumping to a conclusion.

It's a problem for me and I have been in this business for seven years. It goes something like this.

1) Wire money to some strange person you don't know
2) Pray
3) Receive box
4) Open box and hope that inside the box there is something but air...
5) Try parts
6) If parts are good, buy again
7) If parts are not good, you lost your wire transfer

When it comes to component level board repairs, some parts I can get off the shelf - standard transistors, standard resistors, etc. Some ICs that come with special programming(like the SMC which controls battery recognition and battery charging as well as reading sensors) I have to rip off dead boards, then reball them with 90+ 0.25mm balls.. and put them on. And HOPE that the board I took the chip off of wasn't thrown away because that chip was the bad one.

It's BS, and a part of what this bill would hopefully help us out with fixing.

Hi,

As a big supporter of this bill, I want to make the point that this is not just about singling out Apple. I discuss Apple products a lot because I can give good examples, since it is what I work on day in day out every day. However, I believe this bill will be beneficial long into the future as a tool and an example for other companies to follow. There will be many new technologies that we cannot even imagine right now coming out over the next 50-100 years, and it'd be nice if there were a precedent set in the early 2000s that hey.... it shouldn't be illegal that the repair guy down the street have a manual that tells him what the value of the resistor is here so he can fix the product.

I am aware that this entire industry will go through many changes to the point that I do not recognize it anymore over the course of my lifetime, but I'd like to see those changes made with a mindset other than "you rent this device until it dies"

When we discuss the right to repair bill, Apple is used as an example, but they're not the only company the bill seeks to change the practices of. When I think about the issues I face working on these products day in and day out, I think about the long reaching implications 5 years, 10 years, 80 years into the future.

I had someone email me about this nine months ago, and I suggested he go to an Apple Authorized service facility.

He replied and said the nearest one is a six hour, $1200 flight away.

No home button for him I guess.

If it's security, then why doesn't the 5S error 53 when you change the button?

Should the iPhone 5S be recalled **IMMEDIATELY** for being an insecure touchid device?

If it's a security flaw, recall the 5S. If it's not a security flaw... cut the shit, and stop bricking phones that someone replaced the button on because sweat while they were running and decided to answer a text got into the phone.

If Apple sees sweat damage in the phone, it's $300 to replace it. Surely the world understands why a customer would opt to spend $50 to have someone else replace the button. It's a button. Not a lightsaber... us mere mortals are actually qualified to work on this stuff.

The iPhone 5S uses the same concept, of touchID in the home button. However, when you change the button on the 5S, you don't brick the phone.

Apple has some good concepts, but I've spent nearly ten years driving myself nuts trying to find ways to fix devices that they make difficult to repair for no reason. I document that on a YouTube channel I've been posting starting two years ago. https://www.youtube.com/playli...

This is the most blatant middle finger to the independent repair community, and the customer who wants to fix their old one vs. buy a new one, that I have ever seen. It makes sense to increase the bottom line by creating devices that brick themselves when common parts are repaired outside of Apple. I get it, there are a lot of shitty iPhone screens out there... and a lot of shitty repair people. I've talked about it for years. The reality is that there would probably be less shitty parts out there if Apple didn't go above and beyond to make it impossible to repair their products. If I told you the crap I had to go through to get anything in good condition that was original to repair their products, you'd laugh... but it's true.

Buttons break all the time.

Hey, if you think it's very simple I've got a job for you! It's been like pulling teeth finding a half decent apprentice.

The reality is that they go through great effort to ensure no one can work on their products. I had the privilege of lobbying in favor of the right to repair bill in front of senators and assembly-people and the words that came out of their mouths astounded me. They said Apple lobbyists told them that if we repair their products we are modifying them and turning them into PCs and then they will no longer be Macs so we are defrauding the customer, if we had access to the documentation we would be creating knockoffs. All sorts of other silly nonsense!

Yes, that is exactly what I am going to do in my 700 sq ft store with a staff of four people... design knockoff Macbooks and build the PCBs by hand. Wave solder all the components with my wave soldering machine. GTFO!!!

The problem? No one bothers going up to clarify this junk. Since no one takes the time to visit these politicians, they take Apple's word for it. Hell if they know about component level electronics repair, and honestly, why should they? They have far more pressing matters on their plate.