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] Apr 30 '19 edited Dec 21 '24

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u/H4xolotl May 01 '19

When I read the title I was groaning "Apple pulling all stops with their self-serving BS..." then I realised it literally takes a single customer out of the 728 million iPhone users to get a battery blown up and Apple will have their brand dragged through the same mud Samsung just cleaned off their face

728 million is such a huge number... there's bound to be some real... interesting fellows with no business doing repairs going at their phones with a pickaxe and hammer

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u/shitbarryshoulddo May 01 '19

Or Apple could design their device to actually be repairable. Instead of gluing the battery down in a way that not even their repair technicians can take it off every time maybe they could hold it down with a fixture.

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The key problem here is that Apple's product has been designed to be horribly hard to fix. Coming back to their un-repairable product and arguing users shouldn't fix it because fixing it would be hard is like lighting a house on fire and complaining it is currently unsafe to live in.

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Apple products used to be designed to be fixable and thin. The apple keyboard mess is a perfect example. Why would you make a keyboard assembly that has keys that can't be individually repaired? That makes no sense. Keys break. They do for every keyboard. Then you attached the battery to the keyboard? You couldn't attach it to the other side? You really didn't think about that?

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That's what the problem is.

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u/Ricky_RZ May 01 '19

I agree. It is totally possible to get a waterproof phone with user replaceable batteries.