Pluralistic: Apple fucked us on right to repair (again) (22 Sept 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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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.

  • lobut@lemmy.caEnglish
    306·
    1 year ago

    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

    • Zoolander@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      1 year ago

      Except Tim Cook never said that and the source linked to in this article even shows that he didn’t say that.

    • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
      81·
      1 year ago

      I mean they could instead realise the market for replacement parts…

      • WHYAREWEALLCAPS@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I get what you’re saying, but what is the return on those, though? Does it compare to the returns selling a phone? I mean, it could be better returns selling parts, but companies as big as Apple tend to get moribund in their view of the revenue stream. The current model works, so why mess with it?

    • JoShmoe@ani.socialEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      Its all part of the newest trend, Techno Feudalism. Look it up. The elite are still trying to implement the subscription model wherever possible.