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| Halcyon:
--- Quote from: tooki on March 26, 2019, 10:30:15 am --- --- Quote from: Halcyon on March 26, 2019, 04:49:03 am ---I'll add to that -- By buying an Apple product, you also acknowledge that it has a finite lifespan and you should expect it to fail sooner than you think. --- End quote --- And yet, on average, last significantly longer than competing products... --- End quote --- Stats? Because my experience with modern Apple machines is completely the opposite. |
| bd139:
Bar the MBA that lasted 3 weeks before the keyboard packed in, the pre-butterfly keyboard units are incredibly reliable compared to pretty much everything else on the market apart from T and X series ThinkPads. 99% of the ones I have to fix are over 5-6 years old and the usual failures are worn out connectors and batteries and that's about it. I've got a G3 iBook somewhere that still works! Edit: I've got a G4 powermac at my parents as well which was still working about 4 years ago. That got the crap hammered out of it for about 5 years. |
| oPossum:
--- Quote from: tooki on March 26, 2019, 10:30:15 am ---A big question I haven’t seen addressed by anyone yet is what Apple charges for out-of-warranty replacement/repair of AirPods with worn out batteries. --- End quote --- $49 each for battery replacement. https://support.apple.com/airpods/repair/service |
| amyk:
--- Quote from: bd139 on March 26, 2019, 12:03:40 pm ---How do you make smaller, more efficent things without sacrificing repair? --- End quote --- By using your brain. How would you design AirPods with replaceable batteries? The carrying/charging case is simple, just don't glue everything together. https://mindtribe.com/2017/01/apple-airpod-charger-teardown-and-reverse-engineering/ Look, screws! ...once you're already inside. The bastards cleverly decided to glue together the pieces that stop you from taking it apart, but clearly aren't cost-saving if they are still screwing the insides together. For the buds themselves, once again less glue and more threaded/snap-fit parts would do the trick. It wouldn't make them much bigger if at all, but certainly helps repairability. If they were really smart they could do away with wires almost completely, and use spring contacts to make disassembly and assembly easier. Here's something to consider, an iPhone 5 clone with an easily removable battery: https://www.gizchina.com/2013/09/24/jiayu-g5-teardown/ |
| edy:
Let's face it, Apple has no interest whatsoever in designing their products to be repairable. They want their products to look stylish, it is all about design. If the best design means no externally visible screws, extremely compact design, curved white plastic bodies, thinness, that is what they will do. It hasn't hurt their bottom line... and other manufacturers are following suit. If companies gain market share and profitability BECAUSE they make their devices easier to repair, other companies will do the same. But as we have seen, Apple has proven that nobody cares about repair as people continue to shell out more and more money for crap they probably don't need and only do so because Apple's marketing is so amazingly effective. Apple has also shown us that they can do things like create their own proprietary connectors, protocols and other standards that will keep Apple users tied in to their ecosystem... and users take it up their arse like champs, gladly shelling out more and more money. I don't know if they plan on adopting USB-C across the board but for now they are profiting nicely from their locked-in systems. I also remember their Bluetooth connectivity was also broken, to the extent that I had no issues connecting certain devices to Android and BlackBerry and almost every other phone, but Apple refused to properly connect to it (like it was using it's own "interpretation" of Bluetooth protocol). I don't want to pick on Apple only... this is happening across the board to various extents by all companies. The only way to vote is with your money. Refuse to buy anything you can't tear apart easily and repair if needed, or just accept the fact as disposable electronics are now the norm and prepare to pay continuously as batteries continue to die. I for one am using a Garmin Vivofit 4 which runs on a single battery that you change yearly, not a rechargeable. How many smartwatches out there have now glued in batteries that you charge daily/weekly? How easy is it to change them? My wife's Apple Watch decided to pop open a few weeks ago... battery swelled and screen popped off the case. It was under the "extended" warranty Apple has because there was a major problem with many of their watches. Otherwise, that would have been an expensive needless repair, as it hasn't been that long. Next time the battery swells and decides to pop open the watch (or explode on the wrist) I am not so sure Apple will fix it. |
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