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It's making me sick seeing people on LinkedIn fawning over a new Apple ad around "sustainability" as though they haven't been a staunch opponent of the right to repair, or industry leaders in the field of forced obsolescence.
@airadam they have recently changed their tune and now support right to repair. It looks like the iPhone 15s are easier to fix than 14s. So some progress there.
@crankyclown Sadly, even much of what they've done recently seems pretty cynical; there's some detail towards the end of this piece https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/22/vin-locking/#thought-differently
@airadam thanks for the link!
bitterseeds @crankyclown @airadam Yeah, but everything is serialize i.e. has a chip in front of the function, such as the screen. It needs calibration from software ONLY Apple has access to. So you go have your screen replaced or one of the many other parts in a Mac or iPhone and they won't work right. Don't be fooled.
@airadam would it be LinkedIn without this kind of content?
@airadam didn’t you see the skit? They’re totally different now. Mother Nature seemed impressed, to me anyway
@airadam sincerely hope the sarcasm is fully evident here
@airadam I agree 100% on right-to-repair, but forced obsolescence?
From time to time they cut off support for things a bit early for my liking, but their most popular products — iPhone and iPad — receive meaningful software updates FAR longer than most competing Android devices do (5-6+ years, and usually longer for security updates).
Maybe they can improve upon that, but I would hardly call them “industry leaders” in forced obsolescence.