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Pluralistic: Apple fucked us on right to repair (again) (pluralistic.net)
submitted 1 year ago by demonsword to c/technology
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Right to repair has no cannier, more dedicated adversary than Apple, a company whose most innovative work is dreaming up new ways to sneakily sabotage electronics repair while claiming to be a caring environmental steward, a lie that covers up the mountains of e-waste that Apple dooms our descendants to wade through.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 80 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

Tim Cook laid it out for his investors: when people can repair their devices, they don't buy new ones. When people don't buy new devices, Apple doesn't sell them new devices. It's that's simple.

I mean, there we go. For anyone wondering. Capitalism can't be green.

edit: thanks for pointing out that the article said it but doesn't back it up, leaving my comment up regardless

[โ€“] neclimdul 2 points 1 year ago

Maybe updated because it currently cites this article about a shareholder letter. https://www.inverse.com/article/52189-tim-cook-says-apple-faces-2-key-problems-in-surprising-shareholder-letter

Its implication right after this about them using the repair shop to boost sales however is unsupported speculation. A reasonable guess based on what we see from people like Rossman but still unsupported by this piece.

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