Apple Is Selling iPad Repair Parts for Astronomical Prices
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An iPad A16 digitizer costs $200 from Apple versus $50 from third-party suppliers, while the entire iPad A16 retails for $349. The iPad Pro 13 screen assembly costs $749. Jonathan Strange of XiRepair analyzed the parts catalog and found more than one-third of components cost too much for repair shops to use profitably, 404 Media reported Thursday. Strange calculates repair viability by adding $85 labor costs and 10% profit margin to parts prices, then comparing the total to half the device's retail cost.
[1] https://www.404media.co/apple-is-selling-ipad-repair-parts-for-astronomical-prices/
Not that different from auto parts (Score:2)
This would not be a problem if support for aftermarket parts was mandated, something similar to [1]Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act [wikipedia.org].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnuson%E2%80%93Moss_Warranty_Act
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Magnuson-Moss was a good act, but what we really need now is a law doing these two things:
1. Exempt from Patents, Copyrights, and all Intellectual property laws, including the DMCA the manufacture, sale, distribution, import and export. Of parts sold solely to replace a failed original part, As well as all instructions for repair or replacement and circumvention of digital locks necessary to replace a faulty part. Such as screens and batteries. The evidence of broken parts intended to be replace
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4. provide restore / install images and Forbid device makers from only selling them as part of full package where you need to buy HDD / SDD / SD card / etc. With the image loaded on it.
I can load images to an device on my own / buy an replacement disk at an much lower price then what you price your disk.
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Ah yes.. definitely. I was considering the restore images and programming for each part necessary to be part of the Technical information manufacturers should be required to make available.
If manufacturers don't have to provide that, then every replacement component, such as Microcontrollers which require programming the EEPROM would be completely worthless. I mean to say that the manufacturers should be required to supply all programming code necessary to prepare every replacement component for us
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All that sounds amazing, until you realize that this will destroy the market for most consumer products or jack up the prices for the base units.
Full disclosure, I've been managing global supply chains in multiple industries for over 20 years. The problem with this is that there is no single price for any of the components that goes into a complex consumer product like an electronic device. Instead the pricing you get is predicated heavily on how many you make. Apple gets the pricing of components th
Same with car parts (Score:2)
If you want OEM parts from a dealer it's 10x the cost of something from an auto part store. Sometimes that has value and other times it doesn't. That's for the person purchasing the parts to decide.
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10x is ludicrous, that's not how car parts work unless you want to play "well ackshually!" with outlyers. And the article is talking about individual parts that cost more than the device is worth.
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Maybe for a BMW but I can generally get parts for my cars for about 2 to 3 times aftermarket markup and it's generally substantially better quality.
Car parts are also a hell of a lot more tightly regulated. I mean at least right now I'm sure that'll change soon what would the current American administration
How many people get tablets repaired? (Score:2)
Usually software support ends before the device becomes unusable. I still have my mother in law's 2nd gen iPad floating around on a bookshelf somewhere but it's basically useless as no apps support the newest OS you can load on it. I've never ever paid for phone or tablet repair. If you regularly need device repair you probably should be buying cheaper plastic devices, not glued together pieces of metal and glass.
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There are places in the world where it is far quicker and easier to repair an existing item then it is to replace one. Often labor costs are almost nothing and smart local dealers can buy replacement parts ahead of time. In this case that will not work and they are stuck buying 11, sell 10 and keep 1 as a parts kit.
In addition, there are clear examples of planned obsolence where certain parts are practically guaranteed to break early, particularly with hard use.
A tablet with a solid case (I recommend sup
Malicious compliance (Score:2)
They have been told they need to keep replacement parts around and it's been hinted at by a few Blue State AGs that lawsuits might follow if they didn't. So this is good old-fashioned malicious compliance.
The problem here is that this crap has a ton of externalized costs. When this stuff ends up in landfills we all have to deal with the environmental mess. And I don't mean save the whales kind I mean heavy metals in your drinking water kind. And not the cool kind of heavy metal the kinds that give you b
Merger with John Deere ? (Score:2)
Apple should merge with John Deere. Both companies seem to share the same values and the merger could allow them to more efficiently align their customer profitisation experiences to release optimum consumer satisfactification by leveraging best in market synergies. Or something...
The answer is simple (Score:4)
Don't buy Apple stuff, ever
They are a strong contender for gold in the olympics of worst companies on the planet
Found the Apple Fanboi (Score:1)
Found the Apple Fanboi!
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Of all the car analogies and parts you could have chosen, you choose the dumb hunk of cast metal that can be machined by something made in the 1920s and have absolutely been one of the most reliable things to buy aftermarket. What's it like being such an apple fanboy and failing at analogies?
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It's like being a failed head gasket.
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Some people just like walled gardens and being told what to do, I guess.
And paying a massive premium for the "privilege".
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Some people think Apple is better at privacy. And that improvement is worth the premium.
Not saying they are right, just saying it should be considered.
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They're certainly better at hardware. For years I had flagship Samsungs, a few of the Pixel models, even the Nexus (Which wasn't necessarily a flagship, but was the reference model for what an Android phone should be). Without fail, every single one of them crapped out shortly after the warranty expired. Things like bootloops that would brick the device, or they just would decide to not turn on one day. And I had one of the Samsungs that were known for catching fire, that was fun. I couldn't take it on trip
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Well, there are a few things that I need to do, but can't do on Linux, but can do on Mac or Windows.
So, who do I hate more?
Microsoft. Microsoft is the one I hate the most. Microsoft is one of the greatest evils our species has ever produced. Apple is no saint, but once I get my hands on a machine and start using it, Apple treats me much better than Microsoft. Apple even gave me free technical support on a free service of theirs before I even bought any of their hardware, and it was with a living breathi
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> Don't buy Apple stuff, ever
> They are a strong contender for gold in the olympics of worst companies on the planet
Kids, buying OEM parts from the manufacturer is never ever cheap. Where do you buy new tires from? Please don't say the dealer, ffs. Nobody over produces and sits on a dragon's hoard of spare parts to keep the prices down. You never buy OEM to save money, you do it for peace of mind, situationally.
Shit, I'm looking up OEM parts for my Dell laptop and all they have are batteries and SSDs, no screens, touchpads, keyboard assemblies, etc. What's there is overpriced, ofc. I'm sure they have other parts somewher