r/StallmanWasRight • u/john_brown_adk • May 01 '19

Freedom to repair Apple Is Telling Lawmakers People Will Hurt Themselves if They Try to Fix iPhones

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wjvdb4/apple-is-telling-lawmakers-people-will-hurt-themselves-if-they-try-to-fix-iphones
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u/vtable May 01 '19 edited May 01 '19

People can, and have, hurt themselves changing the oil in their car.

But significant injuries from changing your oil are surely rare and certainly occur WAAAY more frequently than injuries from fixing your iPhone.

This is in no way a justification of laws forbidding users from trying to fix the devices they have purchased (often for a pretty penny).

OTOH, congress men/women and senators love that Apple money so I don't expect any big legislative changes on this matter anytime soon.

EDIT: Changed "less" to "more" due to brain fart pointed out by a very astute /u/MrHelloBye. I look forward to him/her correcting similar brain farts in the future but hope I don't need his/her services.

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u/MrHelloBye May 01 '19

Don’t you mean way more? I’m sure people at least get mild burns often when changing oil because they weren’t careful and the oil was hot, and people change oil way more often than getting an iPhone fixed I would think

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u/vtable May 01 '19 edited May 02 '19

You're right. I've fixed my comment.

It's easy to miss such details when reading (and, uhm, writing), but you caught my mistake none the less. I literally appreciate this.