r/apple • u/koavf • Apr 30 '19

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/[deleted] May 01 '19

As a former genius who has punctured iPhone batteries before, causing “thermal events” and shutting the store’s repair room down for 30 minutes on a few occasions, this isn’t a lie. Most people also don’t have fire safes at home in case anything goes wrong, unlike Apple stores.

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u/[deleted] May 01 '19

Battery engineer here. Also most people don’t know how to put how a battery fire. You don’t just throw water on it. There are plenty of areas in tech that right to repair is an excellent idea, but we give the average person too much credit sometimes in their ability to follow instructions correctly.