[HN Gopher] APPL forced to add iPhone, MacBook repairability sco...
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       APPL forced to add iPhone, MacBook repairability score to comply
       with French law
        
       Author : CapitalistCartr
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2021-02-26 20:14 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | eznzt wrote:
       | "APPL"
        
         | mikestew wrote:
         | That _one_ extra letter would have put the title over the 80
         | char limit. Though  "...device repairability", "...phone/laptop
         | repairability" would have fit just fine with "Apple".
        
           | hbcondo714 wrote:
           | Or just use their US ticker symbol: AAPL
        
             | mikestew wrote:
             | Duh, well, there is that. I got so wrapped around the axle
             | on the unnecessary shortening that I completely missed the
             | symbol typo on a stock I've traded probably at least
             | monthly (and probably view daily) for the last fifteen
             | years.
        
             | didgeoridoo wrote:
             | Poor Appell Petroleum Corp (APPL) went out of business in
             | 2016, probably because nobody could find their stock symbol
             | to invest, since every search engine autocorrects it to
             | AAPL...
        
       | lioeters wrote:
       | 6.5 out of 10 for Macbooks seems way too high to be realistic.
       | The list of parts that a user can replace/repair would be very
       | short.
        
       | [deleted]
        
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