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The shareholder fight that forced Apple's hand on repair rights
Wednesday morning, Apple announced that the company will soon make parts and repair manuals available to the general public, reversing years of restrictive repair policies. The new policy represents a seismic shift for a company that has fought independent repair for years by restricting access to parts, manuals, and diagnostic tools, designing products that are difficult to fix, and lobbying against laws that would enshrine the right to repair.
But Apple didn't change its policy out of the goodness of its heart. The announcement follows months of growing pressure from repair activists and regulators — and its timing seems deliberate, considering a shareholder resolution environmental advocates filed with the company in September asking Apple to re-evaluate its stance on independent repair. Wednesday is a key deadline in the fight over the resolution, with advocates poised to bring the issue to the Securities and Exchange Commission to resolve.
Apple spokesperson Nick Leahy told The Verge that the program "has been in development for well over a year," describing it as "the next step in increasing customer access to Apple genuine parts, tools, and manuals." Leahy declined to say whether the timing of the announcement was influenced by shareholder pressure.
Apple makes parts and manuals available to all (15m35s Louis Rossmann video)
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 19 2021, @02:52AM (3 children)
Referring to Apple II gs?
(Score: 2) by HammeredGlass on Friday November 19 2021, @04:03PM (2 children)
You could play some Macintosh games on that system. Really was the best Apple ever made.
(Score: 2) by drussell on Saturday November 20 2021, @03:53PM (1 child)
Citation, please?
You could run other, previous Apple II software on them with the processor in "emulation mode" where it looks like a 6502, but I'm not sure how you think you could run software compiled for the Motorola 68000 series CPUs on a WDC 65C816 system. Perhaps some games that were available for the Macintosh were ported to IIgs versions?
(Score: 2) by HammeredGlass on Saturday November 20 2021, @04:21PM
I can only tell you what I recall. This was a few years ago after all, circa 1988-90.