Apple exec's latest interview is a pile of greenwashed BS : technology

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We need to take a page from the EU and force this stuff to happen by law. Expecting for-profit businesses to do anything they're not legally required to is simply naive.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I live in the EU and I even wish for a bit more aggressiveness regarding laws like this. It's a very slow moving machine, but I feel like it does have the ability to create change.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

It 100% does! The next iPhones will have USB-C in them, and that's not because Apple thinks it's time to deprecate Lightning. They love their proprietary USB 2 connection! They were forced to upgrade, and you did that!

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[+] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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[+] [email protected] -7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Every time I see Rossman’s face he is butthurt about Apple. I don’t know if it’s just the reporting or does he ignore issues presented by other manufacturers

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

He has been running a repair shop for apple products for a decade. So he is more knowledgeable about them as well as more affected by their choices regarding repairability.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

He does often mention that others do it too, and has videos about other companies like Samsung, or camera companies, just not nearly as much.

[+] [email protected] -8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

iPhone batteries are already pretty easy to replace. I’ve done it dozens of times for several different models. It requires two screws, a bit of heat and a suction cup, then a couple more screws and some pull tabs. Usually takes under 30 minutes to do.

I don’t know how you could make it much easier while keeping the waterproofing. Rossman is a highly opinionated guy and I appreciate his advocacy, but he also makes no attempt to be fair to the product designers and is very biased.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If Fairphone can do it, I would think a company valued at like 3 Trillion dollars could do it...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fairphone 4 isn't IP68 though, it's IP54. I personally don't care much about waterproof vs water resistent, but let's not pretend these two ratings are identical.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah well, my dad's phone is an IP69 and it can beat up your dad's phone

[+] [email protected] -10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Doesn’t this guy own a phone repair company, and so would have a lot of interest in making an argument for that?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Even so, what the problem with that? He advocate and put a lot of effort to change repairability and is beneficial to a lot of people, the Apple side of repairability is beneficial for whom?

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