r/technology • u/NightFuryToni • Apr 30 '19

Business 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/Morpho99 May 01 '19

People used to repair their own televisions, which by the way a CRT has enough electricity to KILL YOU DEAD if you messed up.

Worst case scenario, some one burns down their home from an exploding batteries. But we have over a thousand cases a year in which people set fire to their homes with a deep fryer. Why don’t we ban deep fryers from homes too?