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Reminds me of a Louis Rossman video [0] where he shares his frustration with Apple's independent repair shop program. He says that to get access to genuine Apple parts (and the ability to pair them to devices), Apple requires that his shop not be able to do certain things like fix a broken angle detection sensor.

It's utter BS, and the lip service companies are paying to right-to-repair bills in state legislatures honestly confuses me given their directly antithetical behavior. Hope strong repair bills get passed and they are fined to hell and back :)

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> He says that to get access to genuine Apple parts (and the ability to pair them to devices), Apple requires that his shop not be able to do certain things like fix a broken angle detection sensor.

is this a loaded framing for the proposition that "you can't perform component-level repairs if you're presenting yourself as an apple authorized service center"? because the point of apple authorized service centers is you get the apple authorized service, not someone drilling and reflowing your board to replace components.

it's great that rossman can do this, but he's N=1, and apple can't make their entire network out of rossmans. I think it's pretty obvious why they have to enforce minimum standards and standardized repair protocols in an authorized service program.

this is the "rossman doesn't like any repair solution in which rossman doesn't get paid" thing in action. component-level repair isn't the only kind of repair, it's just the one that results in rossman getting paid the most.

But you do know that apple authorized service center service is often worse because instead of reflowing components they go for stuffing your device with shoe rubber to push chips with defective connections tighter to the pcb? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaGHcBZjmWA

> But you do know that apple authorized service center service is often worse

it seems incredibly dishonest to frame that as being something that happens often. can you provide statistics about how many apple authorized repairs come back with shoe rubber inside?

like if I go to a best buy for apple authorized service, you're telling me they have a big box of shoe rubber in the back they're using for repairs? Doubt.

Best Buy doenst repair anything, they sent it to Apple Houston, Texas repair center (CSAT sweatshop), those are the guys putting rubber because its faster than soldering.

Sorry, which video? Your [0] doesn't go anywhere :)

Ah so sorry! Got deleted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn_v-VxXNoI

Might have been this video? Sometimes Rossman's videos ain't easy to search for, hah. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHhGBvfGams

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