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iPhone 15 Pro Said to Be Easier to Repair Like iPhone 14 and 14 Plus
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I don't think you even read or understood my take. Re-read it and then try another response?
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Yeah, removable back glass makes iphone so much more expensive...
You know what else makes it costly? Parts serialization, when every detail is signed and cannot be replaced without Apple calls and software tools. So you cannot buy new macbook battery without renting box with fireproof safe with cup of sand, and making service calls after replacement to provide personal info to make your laptop work again. All of this is unnecessary to replace battery, Apple just saves cents to make everything about repair harder, and when regulators finally say that such practices should be reverted - Apple will say to customers that it will cost +$200 to make things more repairable again, and you will trust to Apple and pay anyway, so they will fix their new price with +$192.50 profit margin.
Nice strawman argument. The chasis was redesigned.
Less than <1%, no wait, I'll be generous, <5% of all Apple customers are going to practically take on the benefits of right to repair
While the majority of customers pay more for the device just so that people like whiney Louis Rossman can save a few bucks.
Keep going down this road and we might get easily replaceable batteries.
Inflation has hit pretty much all markets, and things generally do cost more to make.. and some are abusing the inflationary climate we are in - all factors combined, so no it's not.
Perhaps the glass back allows for different antenna placements. An entirely new frequency band for the full 5G experience will require either a new separate antenna or a different configuration of an existing one.
What would YOU put on the back when you want to enable wireless charging???
You don't have stats how every internal redesign affects component's price, do you think there is zero redesigns in recent years, when price stayed? Lets be real, how much do you think this redesign costs? It will add more that 1$ to current $464 material price?
Is sound like you just want to blame one specific group in growing prices to product that will buy anyway. When Apple knows that there is enough loyal customers, they will drop any excuse to grab more cash from customers next time, just like any other brand.
I’ll put it more blunt: it’s BS
Just another evidence that most people here do not understand product pricing.
I didn't say price increase is exclusive to chasis redesign, but to say it has 0 impact on margins is a terrible assertion.
You don't have stats either so how can you say this has zero effect on pricing and immediately dismiss what I'm saying? What because all redesigns cost exactly the same and therefore I'm wrong?
Not a good argument.
Ha ha, good one - Apple redesigned the iPhone 14 frame apparently last year to improve things including repair ability, and now they are applying those changes to the 15Pro apparently, citing that as an item that drives a possible price increase is just silly. All we have about the 15 is rumors, no facts and my educated guess is that they apply engineering learnings from one product to the other…
But yeah, continue on…
Thing is, YOU don’t have an argument…
Saying it again, all we have about iPhone 15 are rumors, no facts…
How could you possibly think right-to-repair and consumer ownership are negative, unless you clearly enjoy having every last aspect of your life dictated for you?
Says the person who just pointed out about iPhone 14's redesign should be used as the basis for their argument. Yeah because iPhone 15's redesign should cost exactly the same and the price increase is 100% from somewhere else, right? That's hilarious 🤣
As I literally explained, the right to repair design decision is costing most Apple customers MORE money to buy the product to make the few loud people who actually do repair devices themselves happy.
They probably debuted the design on the lower-volume 14 in anticipation of bringing it to the other lines.
very apparent that either you didn't read or do not understand my post because you are clearly putting words in my mouth ... but whatever suits you, keep going ...
Proof?
Because all of the information available points to the chips and boards as adding to the materials cost.
So your "argument" is clearly just anti-consumer propoganda parroting.
What does this have to do with "You clearly own nothing " argument?
I own 6 iPads from all the way back to iPad 3, a few macs, a few PCs, a few iPhones, 1 Pixel and so on. Tell me again I clearly own nothing.