Apple uses the excuse that third party repair businesses would be the ones stealing and leaking private pictures, video and data if they are allowed to repair Apple branded devices. They use this lame excuse as a way to convince lawmakers to prevent Right to Repair bills from gaining traction in the legislature. Apple wants us to believe that Right to Repair will make this sort of privacy invasion common, but in reality Apple is the only ones who have been caught with such violations when their authorized repair centers and contractors do the work under the Apple banner. Funny, right.
Apple wants to prevent their customers from using third party repair businesses to fix their iDevices for a reasonable amount thereby extending the device's usable life instead of being tricked into buying the latest shiny bauble from Apple for $1000+. The company fabricated this myth that third parties not affiliated with Apple would be causing these sorts of happenings, but Apple has so far been the only ones to actually have this privacy infringement. Sounds like Apple are the most egregious violators of privacy abuse on their customers. They need to be reamed on this harder and more often. Right to Repair needs to become the accepted norm in all industries. People should be able to repair their products as they see fit and Apple can shove their abuses up their collective asses.
From Louis Rossman on the Apple leak and anti-Right to Repair lies:
Have you seen the John Deere fight on right to repair an $800,000 combine? https://www.extremetech.com/computing/246314-farmers-pirating-john-deere-tractor-software-stick-man
Yeah I'm familiar with the John Deere vendor lock-in and rip-off model of repair. The DMCA and other legislation has been used to stifle customer-based repair options by companies like JD claiming their proprietary tools are software are being violated by third party repair parts and services which simply isn't true. Their software was augmented with this bullshit solely to lock-out third party repairs and force customers to go through JD at exorbitant dollar amounts to simply discover what may be wrong with the equipment. Same goes for those McDonald's shake machines. Cracking and/or reverse engineering their software to put more options in the hands of customers is not what they want so they use their strong arm tactics and legislative capture to remove any and all competition in the repair space. They are the epitome of jewed up companies preying on their customer base to get as much blood, tears and money from them. Congress enables them since the long nose tribe sticks together. 110 times will hopefully be the highest number we will need to count to when dealing with this sort of avarice and corruption.
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