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posted by Fnord666 on Monday August 03 2020, @04:52PM   Printer-friendly
from the do-I-own-it-or-not? dept.

Apple Emails Reveal Internal Debate on Right to Repair - iFixit:

The emails show the high profile of Right to Repair inside Apple as leaders debate how to respond to a request for comment on an upcoming column. "The piece is using [Senator] Warren's new right to repair for agriculture to talk about the broader right to repair effort and plans to use Apple as a symbol in that fight. We're meeting with everyone shortly about the overall strategy and then I'll connect with [Greg 'Joz' Joswiak]." The email goes on, "Appelbaum has, of course, talked with iFixIt [sic] and others." They're right about that!

The conversation resulted in a set of talking points that Kaiann Drance, VP of Marketing, talked through with Appelbaum. Afterwards, Apple PR wrote, "Kaiann did a great job and emphasized the need for a thoughtful approach to repair policy because of how important it is to balance customer safety with access to more convenient repairs."

Apple was less convincing than they hoped. The editorial, carrying the weight of the Times' entire Editorial Board, came out forcefully in favor of Right to Repair. Of Apple specifically, the Times remarked, "The company is welcome to persuade people to patronize its own repair facilities, or to buy new iPhones. But there ought to be a law against forcing the issue."

See, also: Magnuson–Moss Warranty Act.


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  • (Score: 2) by looorg on Monday August 03 2020, @09:29PM (1 child)

    by looorg (578) on Monday August 03 2020, @09:29PM (#1030942)

    I knew there was a name for it, I just couldn't recall it. Thank you.

    That said I still wonder why they would bother doing it to a PSU. It's not like it's secret tech or something that can't be figured out how it works and what is in the box. My best guess was that it had something to do with heat conductivity at the PSU was always on (the power switch was on the machine and not the PSU; that changed in the later revisions for the Amiga compared to the earlier C64:s) or that they just wanted it to be heavier (the later models that wasn't potted was very light since it was more or less just a plastic cube with very little inside).

    That said since it was always on in essence as long as it was plugged in they had this nasty tendency to eventually just burn out which was kind of interesting as once you got the box open and you could see where it had turned black and sometimes little bubbles as if it had more or less boiled and burned.

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  • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Monday August 03 2020, @10:35PM

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Monday August 03 2020, @10:35PM (#1030964)

    They probably had a nasty tendency to burn out *because* they were potted. That makes it harder for heat to dissipate. If you're worried about heat build-up, the *last* thing you want to do is pot your electronics. You only do it because of some other consideration, usually shock resistance. Perhaps they did it because they were worried about people dropping the PSUs.

    The power switch being on the machine doesn't really matter; it's not hard to add another small wire back to the PSU for the remote power switch to work and still keep most of the electronics turned off, though since this is a 1980s machine, it's most likely they had some kind of transformer-based power supply inside, and usually those have the transistor always connected to mains on one side, unless a heavy-duty power switch is used to disconnect it. Since you say the later models weren't potted, that tells me they finally realized that it was causing more problems than it solved; I'll bet the later models didn't burn out as often.