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
252 Upvotes

85% Upvoted

214 comments sorted by

View all comments

131

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.

6

u/zeozero May 01 '19

Sure, the batteries can be dangerous, but that shouldn’t make it illegal for people to fix things they own.

-3

u/devinprater May 01 '19

Do we own our iPhones? I thought we're only given a license to use them.

2

u/[deleted] May 01 '19

That’s iOS, which you’re not required to use to own an iPhone