I expected $2-300 after parts and labor.
"Looks like that will probably run you $950. How about we talk about getting you into a new Mac instead?"
No. It got repurposed into a DAW for my stepdaughter.
Best Buy got into the service and repair business at scale when they bought GeekSquad. It kind of flopped for them. And you can find no end of complaints about incompetent service and even scams from Best Buy.
- one can give tons of reasons for non-repairable devices but the planet has only so much resources. Eventually Apple will enter the group of terrible companies like exxon/BP. Sure Tim Cook will be having the billions but if more companies like tesla is following apple's strategy if vertical integration
Either govts will interfere
Or
Planet is trashed.
- TV, phones have always been repairable. Even recently some one posted repairing a sony Trinitron.
- even if apple doesnot want to do the repair of a chip, capacitor they can make them available
- or not sue if 3rd party does it
- Louis rossman can replace a failed charging chip from an old logic/mother board. He/others like ifixit only tell apple to supply it or allow others to manufacture.
I worked for Apple in 1988-91 if that gives a clue. And I was around 30 at the time.
I don’t disagree about big companies trashing the environment with disposable goods. I keep my electronics for a long time. I don’t own a car. I try to consume very little. Individual efforts don’t make enough difference, though. Enough people have to vote with their wallets to stop predatory and wasteful companies. The realities of why Apple does what they do seem easily explained with simple economics, without invoking conspiracies.
Sony stopped making Triniton TVs and monitors in the early 2000s. How many of those do you suppose ended up in landfills? Someone repairing one today describes a hobbyist or tinkerer. Sony didn’t intend or support end-users repairing their TVs. Try doing that with a modern flat screen. Individuals can and do fix and upgrade consumer electronics, but they represent a negligible percentage of the consumer base.
It is negligible because repair is difficult.
That sounds pretty likely for the current state of things.
As a thought experiment though, if (say) Tim Cook got out of bed one day and said "Right, lets figure out how to make this work...", then I'm pretty sure they'd be able to do it. Economically I mean.
So, I think the problem is more their lack of interest ("making it work") than anything else.
Though they would only replace it with an i5, rather than the i7 that was in it "because the next gen i5 was better than the i7". I should have just replaced the power supply myself rather than than let her get scammed like that.
2012 iMac had the i7 2600
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-2600+...
2013 iMac had the i5 3470
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i5-3470+...
It was noticeable enough in Photoshop that the system ran 30% or so slower.