Hello Everyone,
I have read the previous messages on this topic, I would like to
respectfully object. I would like to begin by saying that I feel the topic
is certainly news worthy. Furthermore I am quite disturbed at how readily
folks on this list are willing to just bow to the "omnipotent Corporation
looking out for our well being." I feel that Apple is only protecting its
bottom line and that is where it begins and ends. Fifty years ago the Sears
catalog included schematics so that one could self troubleshoot issues whit
products that were sold in their catalog. Today we have covers to cover
covers, layering the electronics and mechanical parts of our cars and
hundreds of other devices that we use every day. As an American I love our
traditional spirit of adventure and personal independence to take a product
designed or meant for one purpose and transform it into something completely
beyond what it was designed for. In pushing this envelope we have been a
market leader and produced some of the sharpest minds in our century. I
know for a fact that a few funky shaped screws are not going to stop the
people that I am describing. I am objecting with the status quo, and the
consensus of the people on this list. Before I went blind I was a Heavy
equipment Mechanic. Whenever I would hear about situations like the one
outlined I would be frustrated. We have an amazing amount of competent
electronic specialists who would not bat an eye at removing the back of
their iPhone to do a minor repair. I am a ham radio operator and that
spirit is certainly alive and flourishing. The amount of money that folks
with these skills are saving by doing their own repairs, are nothing short
of amazing. When I owned a computer store and we would frequently have
computers come in where their capacitors had dried out and exploded. This
action is so dramatic, that when my friend and business partner who happened
to be one of these skilled electronic technicians that you are saying have
no business tinkering around in a iphone, would replace the capacitors. Our
customers would think that he had performed nothing short of a miracle.
Along those same lines I had dropped my BN PK and the cards had become
dislodged. He simply reseated them and I went on my way. The company had
just charged me 250.00 for new batteries. He researched it in four minutes
and could have replaced them for me for 18.00. How much do you think that
Humanware would have charged for reseating my cards, not to mention the
time. Please do not tell me that this is not news worthy, because it
certainly is.
Sincerely,
Scott
-----Original Message-----
From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
[mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of heather kd5cbl
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 10:04 PM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Apple "screwing" iPhone users to block them from opening the
hardware they paid for.
Well, that would be like watching tim the tool man tailor, right!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ricardo Walker" <rwalker...@gmail.com>
To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 5:25 PM
Subject: Re: Apple "screwing" iPhone users to block them from opening the
hardware they paid for.
Lol,
I think this is quite funny. Really, unless your the like 1% of iPhone
owners who want to take your device apart, is this even news worthy?
Ricardo Walker
rwalker...@gmail.com
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On Jan 20, 2011, at 6:20 PM, Scott Howell wrote:
> Gee, have you considered that maybe Apple doesn't want you mucking about
> in there and then trying to claim the device has some sort of flaw, which
> means they would have to replace or repair it? There is a reason why they
> don't want the average person messing with the internals. Now once out of
> warranty, I think you should be able to do whatever you want since if you
> break it you get to keep the pieces or pay APple to put it back together.
> Scott
>
>
>
>
>
> On Jan 20, 2011, at 4:51 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
>
>> Is this another method apple i using to control repairs and keep
>> consumers out? read more:
>>
>> http://bit.ly/gpoTpd
>>
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