This squawking bunch may feel that they have this "right" to repair, but guess what else they have? FREE WILL, and they can always bypass the purchase and not buy the thing (and make do with a laptop or other device) - the whiners are SO "entitled" - ya know what? We got by FOR MANY DECADES without all this junk, you do not "NEED" the thing you complain so vocally about claiming a "right" to repair.
You are fighting a statement never made by the other side — you invented it yourself. The right to repair movement is not and never was about Apple in particular. Apple is just a high-visibility target, a single company which affects large population, and a few of its practices are easy to understand by laymen as something negative.
(1) That makes it a useful item in rhetorical inventory, but it is in no way the core problem.
Repairing hardware is only one of the facets of the right to repair.
(2) Fran Blanche has nicely summed it up: it’s about the right to own. And the movement is not living in the vacuum. It heavily interlocks with other ideas. Trying to slay the entire concept by equating it to a single point in the debate is somewhere between blissful ignorance and clumsy manipulation.
Apple equally have a right to do business the way they see fit for their customers' security and streamlining of their business and security protocols. (…)
Yes, there is risk of harm to the brand being done by ignorant, dishonest or in some way obsessed users. Actually it constantly is being done everywhere. Not only to Apple, but to everyone. It is also done in a systematic and planned manner to people repairing stuff and providing replacements. Guess, who are the leaders in such attacks. Fighting the damage to brands of myriads of companies and individuals, just to let a few major players keep control over the market, is one of the reasons right to repair exists.
You are also somehow forgetting that rights are not absolute and do not magically come before other rights. They are also not all equally important. A company has the right to protect their brand. But it is never unlimited and in some cases it may even be completely overridden.
Get over it and get a grip; you have naff all "rights", and I believe Apple are AT LEAST helping you by showing that the average man is NOT skilled enough to do these repairs. Simple
I am from a former communist country. I do not recall any single building not having at least one person who was fixing electronics, every other family not having someone who did electrical work, basic plumbing or carpentry, or someone not capable of mending clothes. With no internet, even with restricted flow of information. All that included skill to illegally acquire resources needed.
I do not want this to return. Seeing monstrosities found in electrical installations of that era is enough of the reason.
(3) But that observation directly contradicts your claim. Yes, average people are quite capable of fixing stuff. They may be not interested in acquiring the skill without sufficient pressure, but that is not the same as being incapable. Of course that is of little relevance too, because the movement was never about literally everyone fixing their own gear. Again, a a nice straw man. Even worse, the argument made is yet another repetition of long debunked one.
(4)As technical-minded folks, you have to step back a bit, snap yourself out of the technology world, and realise that these "right to repair" people (and you) are about 0.00000000000001% of Apple's customers.
Which is true for any rights movement. It’s always a tiny minority that profoundly cares. The rest is at best leaning to support them, short-term. Try being an activist in any subject and you will quickly learn the painful breakdown: 3M is directly affected, 300k has opinions, 30k supports on Facebook, 3k appear on protests, 300 does anything of real value, 30 goes to meetings with authorities, 3 of them come prepared.
So, by the logic you presented, basically nothing should ever be done with anything. Good that not everyone thinks the same way or otherwise now we would be plowing our fields and collecting grain for ours lords, instead of writing on this forum.
(5)
(1) Even if some of the practices (e.g. glued batteries) may have be a sound choice from engineering perspective (direct thermal coupling to the case; skipping battery frame) and in the end they may stay with us.
(2) No, Rossman neither has created nor is defining the movement. He jumped on the bandwagon that was in motion for two decades. An important activist doing good job, but he is not equal to the idea.
(3) Not that the licensed electricians at the time were much better, but they are now.
(4) Against slavery abolition in US: why would you free slaves, if slaves are not capable of taking care of themselves. That is both circular reasoning and making an invalid assumption.
(5) Figuratively. I know it’s not the season for plowing.
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