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At this point it’s as if Apple is begging to be regulated. Absolutely disgraceful. To be clear my issue is not with the price of the repair but with the lack of alternatives due to Apple’s replacement part policy. I’m pretty sure if the EU were to regulate them they’d still enforce their customer hostile policies onTo their other markets.

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What Apple is doing isn't different from what manufacturers have been doing for centuries. Expensive repairs and parts have always been a way to earn more money at the expense of the consumer. I'm not saying their behavior is acceptable, just that it's very unlikely that laws are a solution to this problem.

I think the issue is that faulty hardware isn’t actually that common. I have more than 20 Apple devices in my family circle without any issue. But if there were to e failure it would going to be costly and strenuous to repair. So I don’t think customer choice will solve this issue. We need lawmakers to protect the few unlucky ones from these customer hostile practices.

I wonder if this is the end goal.

If they are regulated, they can expect permanent life at the expense of taxpayers subsidizing the company.

Be extremely anti consumer and anti developer, advertise to make up for the negative behavior and loss of users.

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