Although what you say isn’t wrong …
Apple really can’t win. Oppose RtR. Gets criticized. Complies with RtR. Also gets criticized. LOL
Apple really can’t win. Oppose RtR. Gets criticized. Complies with RtR. Also gets criticized. LOL
Thats especially true when it comes to this, which is something they've been aggressively fighting against for years.
It makes sense people are skeptical now when they were already fooled once.
Personally I'm going to believe it when I see it.
Wrong, they can just do i
- publish schematics for everyone (not only approved partners)
- publish diagnostic software for everyone
- sell repair tools and spare parts to everyone
- allow legit users to use their broken devices parts for spare parts by providing ways for the owner to transfer ownership or renounce ownership claim over the device.
- actually offer repair services instead of pretending soem small issue is unfix able and the user should buy a new device sicne repalcing the motherboard costs as much as a new device.
- admit immediately where there is an hardware problem not only after they are forced by the justice system (at least we would avoid those annoying HN Apple fanboys that were rudely accusing people with the keyboard problem that they are putting food or drink on those keyboards and claimed Apple super paid engineers would have caught any problem with their SciFi robot hands that they use to test their keyboards, no joke, so many fanboys were defending Apple in that period)
We need to remove the threat of that regulatory stick and add another atick threatening them for lack of openness. Then there is the carrot hobbyists will find a use for their chips that creates a secondary market like rtlsdr or rpi back when. Let the FCC go after people actually breaking the law rather than making sure the world is safe from things a few people might use for breaking the law.
Which is why those things are usually independent subsystems. You can be completely open about everything else and still keep tight control over those things.
I do not think that the "apple approved partners" have access to software that can at the same time diagnose a hardware issue and change the bandwidth or other parameters to illegal values.
I remember one other issue , maybe it was fixed, but if you were a partner with Apple and someone had a broken product that needed a new part you had to first send the broken part to Apple and then they would send a replacement , so a customer would have to wait for days. It is a system that encourages the user not to repair and just give more money to Apple.
All they did is some PR pretending to support a law they will clearly refuse to obey. There is no explanation for this except that it's a Machiavellian act.