Apple’s pledge to extend California’s law on a national level is “a strategic move.” “Apple likely hopes that they will be able to negotiate out the parts of the Minnesota bill they don’t like,” Chamberlain wrote in an email, pointing specifically to the “fair and reasonable” parts provisioning measure that could preclude Apple’s tendency toward pairing parts to individual devices.
And the article linked about that Minnesota law says that:
The modified [NY’s] bill also allowed manufacturers to sell “assemblies” of parts—like a whole motherboard instead of an individual component, or the entire top case Apple typically provides instead of a replacement battery or keyboard—if an improper individual part installation “heightens the risk of injury.”
and that:
Minnesota’s bill, by comparison, covers most electronic products sold on or after July 1, 2021, and doesn’t allow for as much manufacturer discretion. Companies that sell in Minnesota but don’t offer customers or independent repair shops the materials needed to fix devices with “fair and reasonable” terms and within 60 days can be found in violation of the state’s Deceptive Trade Practices law
And also:
given how manufacturers must now provide free documentation for Minnesotans who want to repair their goods, most companies will post them online. Once online, they’re liable to spread everywhere.
So from that article, the answer is easy. Apple rather lobby to get the bills towards one where they essentially can sell you half a computer/phone preassembled vs one where they need to sell more specific components.
Very green for them, and not the environmental kind.
There is a higher overhead if you’re selling each capacitor and restitor separately. This would be a logistic nightmare… even if apple did this the cost would be astronomical for these parts.
Sure, but you can’t tell me that Apple needs to rivet the keyboard into the aluminum top chassis of a MacBook and sell keyboard replacements for hundreds of dollars. Nobody else in the industry does that.
I’m sure there is some middle ground that makes more sense between having every single capacitor available and having to get half a laptop replaced when your battery dies, or your cooler dies and stuff like that. Not sure if that’s the case anymore, but it was before the last redesign.
As for the cost to the consumer, it depends. Apple wanted me to pay like 500 for a noise cooler replacement (since they replaced half the laptop) when I could literally buy and get one repaired in a shop for like 50…
If I wanted a battery replacement, I would need to leave my Macbook with them for like a week, and then pick it up again. Again at like $500. Meanwhile, no laptop. Or I could go to a third party shop and get some third party battery from who knows where and they do it in an hour and for like $100.
There’s levels to it.
And for repair shops, they should at least allow them to pre stock these assemblies at least so they can repair quickly, and also use one ‘donor board’ and repair multiple devices from those capacitors, resistors and chips. My latest knowledge is they didn’t allow any of that.
Again, not an expert, but I doubt Apple is suddenly going for the most user friendly choice.
Catch is the same as USB C thing. They forced to do it in one of the major markets(California this time) and it’s easier for them to do it everywhere than have multiple processes.
What’s the catch?
The article says:
And the article linked about that Minnesota law says that:
and that:
And also:
So from that article, the answer is easy. Apple rather lobby to get the bills towards one where they essentially can sell you half a computer/phone preassembled vs one where they need to sell more specific components.
Very green for them, and not the environmental kind.
There is a higher overhead if you’re selling each capacitor and restitor separately. This would be a logistic nightmare… even if apple did this the cost would be astronomical for these parts.
Sure, but you can’t tell me that Apple needs to rivet the keyboard into the aluminum top chassis of a MacBook and sell keyboard replacements for hundreds of dollars. Nobody else in the industry does that.
I’m sure there is some middle ground that makes more sense between having every single capacitor available and having to get half a laptop replaced when your battery dies, or your cooler dies and stuff like that. Not sure if that’s the case anymore, but it was before the last redesign.
As for the cost to the consumer, it depends. Apple wanted me to pay like 500 for a noise cooler replacement (since they replaced half the laptop) when I could literally buy and get one repaired in a shop for like 50…
If I wanted a battery replacement, I would need to leave my Macbook with them for like a week, and then pick it up again. Again at like $500. Meanwhile, no laptop. Or I could go to a third party shop and get some third party battery from who knows where and they do it in an hour and for like $100.
There’s levels to it.
And for repair shops, they should at least allow them to pre stock these assemblies at least so they can repair quickly, and also use one ‘donor board’ and repair multiple devices from those capacitors, resistors and chips. My latest knowledge is they didn’t allow any of that.
Again, not an expert, but I doubt Apple is suddenly going for the most user friendly choice.
Catch is the same as USB C thing. They forced to do it in one of the major markets(California this time) and it’s easier for them to do it everywhere than have multiple processes.
it raises the bar for their competitors and makes it more difficult for them to compete since they need to support their own repair programs
it allows them to boast about their sustainability efforts
Just like the defence industry - profit. Sell parts to repair shops 😂