Apple’s New Fix-It Policy Is Not The End For ‘Right To Repair’

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The ‘right to repair’ movement received good news from Apple in November 2021. The company will begin providing customers with genuine Apple tools, parts and manuals in 2022. CNBC first spoke with iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens before Apple’s new repair policy was announced, and caught up with him after the news over Zoom.

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Apple’s New Fix-It Policy Is Not The End For ‘Right To Repair’

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49 COMMENTS

  1. i hope people learn to ignore apple just as apple ignores their customers' needs. Apple has no definition of what the word Fair means. (Soldered SSDs since 2016 and overpriced by 4x compared to any other SSD manufacturer. 2TB @Apple costs 800$ while on Amazon any 2TB Samsung/Sabrent/Kingston/Seagate costs 200$.)

  2. 8:10 I'm sorry what kind of journalism it is, where you can see this progress made by apple?!
    The only progress we can see is the hard work of people like Louis Rossmann, Kyle Wiens …, thanks to them, people are more aware and begin to demand what we lost years ago.

  3. 7:20 just to be clear Dell has been making terrible products from a right to repair point and still is very much continuing the trend.
    Their prototype is a nice PR stunt but nothing near to a real product, unlike framework

  4. We'll find out with the iPhone 14 that comes out later this year. Because of its rumored thick physical design, it may borrow some technologies from the Fairphone, especially with the likelihood of easier battery replacement and easier replacement of the rear camera module.

  5. CNBC. I don’t know how you do it. But you ALWAYS manage to squeeze race into every single video. Thanks for staying divisive as always. 🙄 Also to do a right to repair video and not include Louis Rossmann. Sacrilege!

  6. Complaining is the easy thing to do. Stop buying Apple. It is that simple. Yet more legislation on top of innovation. Apple can comply with any regulation you can throw at it, others can't.

  7. Apple only has itself to blame for the mounting pressure. Had they not practiced predatory business ethics, people would've been fine having their devices fixed by certified apple technicians. Instead, customers are recommended(if not encouraged or pressured) to buy new parts or devices for minor issues. Also, manufacturing their products to decline to non-functional state after a rather short period of time compared to competitor's devices. Forcing customers to constantly buy new devices.

  8. Only iPhones??? COME ON APPLE NOT EVERYONE JUST HAS IPHONES. SOME OF THEM ARE LITERALLY MORE EXPENSIVE THAN ENTIRE MACS . I WANNA SEE IPAD AND MAC REPAIRS THIS YEAR TOO.

  9. We are still living in a digital feudalism where everything require internet and online services.

    If the company that made your product shuts down, and their servers are closed, what you bought from them loses most of its functions or becomes totally useless.

    You will own nothing and be happy.

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