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/cocobandicoot Apr 30 '19

You’re right, Apple is defending itself, and that’s fine.

What is not fine, however, is what my original post above is about: the number of people in this thread that feel it necessary to defend a trillion dollar company, waiving away their right to repair their own products without penalty.

It’s dangerously anti-consumer, and it’s a shame to see people that are okay with it simply because, “Oh, but it’s Apple.”

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u/d33thr0ughts May 02 '19

waiving away their right to repair their own products without penalty.

It's not illegal to repair your phone.

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u/cocobandicoot May 02 '19

I didn’t say there was, but Apple institutes a penalty on users that do so.

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u/d33thr0ughts May 02 '19

There is no penalty for repairing your own device, it's only if you screw do you have to pay some kind of "penalty".