[HN Gopher] Longevity, by Design [pdf]
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       Longevity, by Design [pdf]
        
       Author : dm
       Score  : 24 points
       Date   : 2024-06-26 13:14 UTC (9 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (support.apple.com)
        
       | Basketb926 wrote:
       | Is this an advertisement from Apple's legal team to EU
       | regulators?
        
       | liminalsunset wrote:
       | Unfortunately they do not mention MacBooks, which are also
       | affected by the calibration issue. Unlike on iPhones, replacing
       | the screen without soldering the old IC to the new one will make
       | the display unusable with blotches (software issue - replacement
       | with a genuine undamaged Apple assembly results in the same
       | pattern), presumed by online users as being intentional.
       | Hopefully the commitment to "not purposefully disable third party
       | parts" extends to MacBooks.
       | 
       | Aside from this I was unsurprised about the safety issues found
       | with third party iPhone batteries. This is a serious problem. I
       | am shocked that there are zero third party suppliers who have
       | done even a basic safety certification on their batteries (and it
       | is likely that lax enforcement of shipping of Li-Ion batteries is
       | to blame as well, since certifications are technically legally
       | required to ship them, and most of them are currently shipped
       | illegally.). Why can manufacturers of department store rubbish BT
       | speakers get a UL certificate for their rubbish tier batteries,
       | but no north american manufacturer of third party iPhone
       | batteries can? Surely they make way more money on these.
       | 
       | Why are there no reputable, high quality, safe suppliers of third
       | party repair parts? The desire to skimp on basic QC and not
       | providing equally good (if not even upgraded) parts appears to
       | indicate either market failure or that there is no market, which
       | is incredibly disappointing. Whenever I fix things I now only buy
       | good condition USED genuine parts because I know that they will
       | be better than new, garbage parts. I have never received a third
       | party part which I believed to be superior to the OEM part, which
       | is ridiculous because they were not cheap and they had the
       | perfect opportunity to compete on quality.
       | 
       | Even more than disappointing, the suppliers of third party parts
       | unintentionally poisoned the proverbial pond they drink from by
       | literally proving Apple et al's safety fearmongering statements
       | to be true. The security and safety concerns they raise are
       | literally true because the market has failed to regulate itself.
        
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