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Right to repair advocates have described Apple's recent claim to lose money on repairs as 'absurd' and 'misleading.'
Apple made the claim to a Congressional judiciary committee investigating, among other things, whether Apple's locked-down approach to device repairs is anti-competitive...
Apple has always insisted that its control of the repair process is for reasons of safety and reliability. Others have, however, argued that Apple is deliberately preventing customers from obtaining lower-cost repairs from independent shops in order to force them to use Apple Stores.
Source: https://9to5mac.com/2019/11/21/lose-money-on-repairs/
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 24 2019, @06:37PM
You may or may not know but there was an attempt to make planned obsolescence MANDATORY in the US. Thankfully it failed.