Apple Tells Lawmaker that Right to Repair iPhones Will Turn Nebraska Into a ‘Mecca’ for Hackers

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>Apple is inventing new and interesting arguments to prevent you from fixing your iPhone: It's lobbying Nebraska lawmakers to kill "right to repair" legislation, telling them unauthorized repair will turn the state into a "mecca" for hackers.

>Right to repair bills, which are currently making their way through eight states (Nebraska, New York, Tennessee, Wyoming, Minnesota, Kansas, Illinois, and Massachusetts), would require electronics manufacturers to make repair parts and diagnostic and repair manuals available to independent repair professionals and consumers, not just "authorized" repair companies. Electronics right to repair legislation is modeled on a 2012 Massachusetts law that preserved the right to repair cars.

>The most logical reason for manufacturers to oppose the bills is that it would democratize the repair economy, making it possible for consumers to fix their own things and cutting into the profits of repairs done at, for example, the Apple store.

>But the prospect of a Cupertino-based megacorporation losing business to local repair shops isn't a very sympathetic argument at the Nebraska statehouse. And so Apple has tried a slew of other tactics, according to state Sen. Lydia Brasch, who was recently visited by Steve Kester, an Apple state government affairs specialist.

>"Apple said we would be the only state that would pass this, and that we would become the mecca for bad actors," Brasch, who is sponsoring the bill, told me in a phone call. "They said that doing this would make it very easy for hackers to relocate to Nebraska."

>motherboard

Isn't that a good thing? Tons of repair companies would set up shop there.

And apple would lose their monopoly on saying come to us for repairs. Apple isn't happy some mom-n-pop store can do what they do for less and probably better.

>Nebraska Into a ‘Mecca’ for Hackers
not an argument

>implying that all the schematics and tools/parts will stay in Nebraska

Holy shit just have this crap in one state will be great for everyone

how does Apple manage to have that long ass battery but still have less battery than the s7 when the s7 battery is shorter

Do Apple Stores even fucking do repairs? I was always under the impression that they just threw away your old shit and just gave you a new one or sent it out to somewhere else

No its not a good thing. Its a right of the owner to do what they want with their products.

Apple is attempting to stifle the repair industry by not putting out documents publicly to hold their own monopoly

Other repair services would go out of business because there are no documents for repair

Apple makes a fair point. If those states don't want to be invaded by ethnic youths who want to steal iphones for a living they better not pass those laws.

they send old phones to be repaired and resold as "refurbished" for 80% of the original MSRP


The right to repair law for cars here in Massachusetts was bullshit to begin with, I shouldn't need to be a dealership to get info in sensors that may or may not be fucking up my car.

If they don't have those laws companies can just use the good old "muh property rights and contract law" excuse to deprive users of that information.

I thought the right to repair law for mass made those documents available you should be able to freely get them. Whats wrong?

Apple's are so much thinner

They do replace logic boards and screens with refurb parts, they will never do component level repair

Louis pls go.

Nobody cares.

>mfw

>iPhone 7 is 7.1mm
>S7 is 7.9mm
wew

I really don't like what this law means for property rights. You can't just force a company to share their property with other people.

...

This is so fucking stupid.
YOU SELL SOMETHING, IT'S NOT YOUR PROPERTY ANYMORE

>vice
just stop

You don't sell someone the software on the phone or the schematics for the phone when they buy it from you. What's next? Forcing people to fork their source code over the government? Fuck that noise. Anyone who tries that is going to get a helicopter ride.

How is this even an issue? Cupertino iPhone Repair has been successfully doing this for years.

I took my busted iPhone in to their SF location and the guy there fixed it in front of me in under two minutes. Didn't even charge me anything.

>Mecca for hackers

Could this mean a new booming tech industry in Omaha?

You're going to defend intellectual property, copyright law that extends for eternity, and software patents that cover trivial things done with a computer?

That was actually the first thing I thought about when I heard that term. Sounds like a good thing to me. Tech really needs to move away from SF.

You can't exactly use the schematics to manufacture your own computers unless you already have a billion-dollar factory. All the average joe can do is repair their shit. Sounds like free market to me.

... user your comment does not make sense. secrecy is good for repair shopś (same for every other profession), and apple can maintain their monopoly by selling parts at absurd prices.

>free market
>forcing individuals to surrender their property

You don't understand, the repairshops get fucked too because Apple WONT distribute the documents. Apple wants to be the only repairer of apple shit so they make more money

>Apple is an individual
ok
Shit, they almost always buy companies and use their IPs and patents and claim they invented something. Our current environment lets obscenely wealthy corporations/individuals do this shit anyway

you know of this thing called the internet? it will spread those documents, regardless of copyright. that will fuck the repairshops even harder.

If you can't compete you don't deserve to be in business.

More like
>we service apple stuff
>apple sues
simple as that

Is there any reason for anyone except for Apple to be against these laws?

they have money and they can sue anyone for anything and they can lobby like all hell

It will only affect Apple, but the repairshops will be fine (actually, even better than they were doing before).

The technically-minded average joe might look at the schematics and find the parts they want to replace, but no way he will buy the proper equipment to desolder microscopic surface mount components. Instead, he will take it to a local repairshop that already has the right equipment.

They're the only ones in the phone market who control the entire support, hardware, and software experience so they'd be very concerned about someone having a bad experience with a bad repair

Microsoft has a variety of hardware and Google has both varieties in software and hardware so they care less about the individual's experience. Google and Microsoft won't fix your phone unless they made it themselves.

please stop being retarded for a second and read this post see the context? now go back to just like microshit and other software companies tried to do with their shitware. not gonna happen.

>all these ESLfags defending Apple

Apple and Microsoft must use the same shilling service.

>Right to Repair iPhones Will Turn Nebraska Into a ‘Mecca’ for Hackers

Allahu Ackbar Louis Al-Rossman Bin Motherboard shall be pleased.

Yea because all those kids tuning their cars and shit and all the people repairing laptops now are just hackers right?

That's literally the next step unless more of these types of laws are passed.

california is the worst for car owners

I'm not american, but I really hope this law passes. Fuck big tech corps, specially Apple.

Are people actually afraid of living near hackers?

>kids tuning their cars
The worst kind of annoyance

hardly

I have to laugh, if only because I would start crying if I didn't.

We are a fully controlled corporatocracy at this point.

The fact that Tim Cook invokes islamaphobia to expand his corporate rule is just another nail in our coffin.

Snowden died for this?

wait, snowden died?

No ATMs and bluetooth connected pacemakers are safe!

Not if you live within 1000m of a mall parking lot.

Do you live in a mall parking lot?

No, but pretty close to one.

Back in the day companies like Apple and Google would have been torn apart by government regulators. However our lovely national security agencies prefer to keep them together in order to maximize the breadth of their nets. It's quite disgusting.

It's very annoying.

kids who can't drive properly with obnoxiously loud exhaust systems (that don't provide any measurable power gain that these retards think they're getting), and redlining through my neighborhood at 1AM.

their parents should control them, god damn

>he fell for it

And that's all it's about really.

>Give us your users metadata for "safe keeping" and we'll give you some business friendly kickbacks.

The security industrial complex needs to be curtailed.

>1000m
you could just say a kilometre user

Is it illegal to repair apple products at the moment? I've fixed hundreds of the fuckers in the last couple of years.

I'm too lazy to do further reading. As someone who owns an independent repair shop, what does this mean for me? I do everything from screen replacements to data recovery from water damaged boards. How do Apple and the government fat cats plan to prevent me from providing good service at affordable prices?

That fruity fag Cook and his Jew lawyers can eat a bag of dicks.

not in most of the world
apple just doesn't have to help or provide parts, and in many areas can use unofficial repair as an excuse to ignore consumer law

whoever made this image is severely retarded, she made 24 illegal downloads not 1

Violation of the law is enforceable in a court.

Whether it's criminal, or civil depends on how much you make, and how good your lawyer is.

Better get a gray market connect Shenzhen for Apple partsn

This doesn't seem like an apple only issue then. Most manufacturing won't sell you parts or charge retarded high prices to discourage you.

> buy phone
> don't own phone

They do generally give you a rundown of the specs, like how it would be weird to buy a car and not be allowed to know what sort of engine it has

>retarded animefag
not surprised

Reading not your strong suit?

80,000/download
24,000/dead family member

being a massive faggot your strong suit?

Planned obsolescence, shitty power management, a turbo-hungry LCD...

it's not an apple only issue
apple is just the most prominent

kek

#REKT

We've reached levels of newfaggotry that shouldn't even be possible.

How is this even happening? If someone owns a product, they should be free to do whatever they want with it. Last I checked I lived in a free country. Looks like that's going down the loo as well.

Stop voting in corporate cock suckers to make America Great?

These are the same people who want to make it illegal to resell your used shit.
They argue that it's a violation of intellectual property laws to modify or resell shit you paid for.
This goes beyond the software, they want this to apply to hardware too, it's truly vile.

#imwithher!!!
fuck off faggot

I'm sure all hackers will move to Nebraska so they can make $12/hour fixing iphones.

>youdidntlikemyguy
>youmusthavelovedtheotherguy

are you really this naive?

eat shit

There were more than two candidates in the 2016 US presidential election, you inane, underage, failed abortion newfaggot. Go back to Sup Forums.

Those kinds of people need to be hanged or shot as traitors, as they go against all of the principals which this country is built upon. They are the ones who seek to oppress the American people.

Looks like you beat him to it. You are what you eat.

ITT: retards who don't know what right to repair laws actually are about

Is that why you're here?

>no u
epic!!

Are you that faggot that is mad about repair shops losing out because they can no longer horde information about apple products and overcharge people for their services?

No I just want the right to open up my own iPhone without Apple calling the FBI on me.

Reported. You must be 18 years or older to post here.

>2017
>right to repair
You are a little too late guys, we live in planned obsolescence world with absolutely irreparable electronics.

>Apple Tells Lawmaker that Right to Repair iPhones Will Turn Nebraska Into a ‘Mecca’ for Hackers
Good thing killing that bill will make it illegal for people to open their phones. I don't want those naughty hackers to open their phones and hack my phone with it.

>announcing your report
sup reddit

>omg reddit XD
Do you know how I know you're new?

do you know how I know you're a huge faggot?

Do enlighten me.

So tell me Sup Forums, why are you still sucking Apple's dick so hard despite their obvious blatant disregard for your consumer rights?

>telling a poor state with a struggling industry and population that they might become a tech hub
kek apple tards didn't think this through, did they?

This, Apple makes the only devices in the world worth fixing. Everything else, you just go out and buy another one.

>burgerclaps are only allowed to repair their own phones in 8 states
Jesus christ what a third world shithole.

nobody here actually likes apple
their only good laptop line is now stupidly overpriced, overheats on facebook and has no ports, it's a toy

Sup Forums usually doesn't like Apple, but there are a lot of nintendo apologists on here at the moment defending their shitty Switch, so it's natural that those large numbers of nintoddlers are also macfucks.

beacuse my macbook trackpad is super comfy

haven't found anything else that doesn't feel like shit, comparatively

This! I have a 2011 MBP that I've done lots of upgrades and repairs on. I tinker with my machines so much that I wouldn't even consider the newest models.

>upgrades

how the fuck do you upgrade a macbook? serious question