"Handled accordingly to me means, if you paid $3k for a device with a known design flaw, the manufacturer fixes it for free for a period of time way longer than 1 year post-purchase, irrespective of you buying Applecare."
Sort of like how automobiles have different-length warranties on different components, e.g., a 5 year, 40K mile warranty on the vehicle, but a 10 year, 100K mile warranty on the transmission.
Like this, but, if a vehicle is found to have a specific defect that is bad enough, it is covered under a recall program even if you are outside the 100k mile mark. Many of the repairs I do, I feel good about - but the ones where I am fixing what Apple should be fixing for their customer for free, I do not. There is one playlist on my channel going over design defects. Those ones, should be Apple fixing.
Not screws and not a metal baggie.
I put an SSD inside of a bag prior to sitting it down flat in a device that sat in a desk prior to being put in a slot on a shelf dedicated for it.
Here's the problem; false equivalence. You are comparing soldering 4 year old NANDs with 50 terabytes of write cycles onto a customer's board with putting that SSD, inside of that bag.
This level of false equivalence makes your post absurd. You actually think the two are within the realm of comparison - and you're thirsty enough for a gotcha to post that false equivalence to a public forum & sign your name to it. This is false equivalence along the lines of comparing stabbing someone to tripping over their foot, and saying
"you hurt them in both cases, so clearly it's the same." It's the dune meme quote,
Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. You have done violence to him, consumed his energy.
If that's where we're at here, I don't think I have much chance of getting you to understand my perspective.
We do treat customer devices with respect - I do repairs I expect to outlast the lifetime of my business - and this shows in our customer service record, online review record, and the work that we do, that existed and can be seen on review sites via archive.org from before the first video was uploaded to the company youtube channel. We maintain that reputation that we've worked for, for over 12 years - and part of
why we have that reputation is that we make a conscious decision to not perform repairs that we have reason to believe will not last. That includes soldering NANDs with high write cycle counts onto customer PCBs.
I don't see a magnet, and I don't see a hinge. You can hear the individual pieces fall onto the board.
Jesus christ. you can't even tell that the magnet went onto the empty fan section without touching the board.
Again, either you are above & beyond ignorant, or you
know it never touched the board but are making things up as a poorly veiled attempt at character assassination. I can't tell. Prior to going into a slot, the magnet is placed onto a hinge. Prior to me putting it on the hinge, I placed the magnet in the machine... that is not moving... on a stationary flat desk.
Look at the shape of an A2141 or A1990 motherboard - then look at where I placed the magnet. That is where the fan would go in the machine, if it were installed. That magnet never touched the board.
But that doesn't matter. You don't care about this, nor do you care about the truth. You care about
winning. I've extended you every possible olive branch, and every possible bit of courtesy & understanding. You have extended every possible nitpick & gotcha, many based on false pretenses or logical fallacies.
For someone who talks with so much certainty and irreverence online, you're quick to play victim...
Your posts throughout this thread have been direct insults at worst, passive aggressive jabs at best. Read your own posts; I'm not a victim, but that doesn't mean you engage in good faith either.
You claim it's virtue signalling for me to say I do not use used NANDs because I put an SSD in a bag. You are completely ignorant of what will happen in reality if we were to use 50 TB write cycle A2141 NANDs in 1000 repairs vs. that SSD being put in that bag 1000 times. One will result in many customers coming back for warranty service, and one will not. It's fine that you don't know that, because
you don't do this for a living. You don't repair. You don't talk to other repair shops that repair.
So you don't understand CMOS logic levels even when they're written down for you. And you have two parts with no spec other than the pin names and think that fully defines the part. You install the wrong part on the pad and think it’s going to magically be fixed by “programming”. But somehow I’m the one making it up as I go along… Ok. Explain to me the issue I'm not seeing.
I understand it fine and mention the differences. You assume I do not understand because it supports your narrative.
If you’re not an engineer, then I’m not sure why you get your back up when people point that out. There’s nothing wrong or invalidating about not being a trained engineer, and it frankly doesn’t matter past your mid-twenties. All an engineering degree means is you sat in a classroom for a concentrated exposure to engineering. If you’re curious and motivated you can learn all that stuff on your own.
I do not need to be an engineer to realize a machine that regularly sends 12v to a device that operates below 3v, that holds your data, and all the necessary information for POSTing is bad engineering. This is like that parenting fallacy that you must be a parent to point out that someone who beats their children is a bad parent.
Did you understand the point I was making? You have an example right in front of you of how solder can bridge under a BGA and your solution is to load the pads up with way too much solder, flood the area with flux so the solder flows easily,
No because it's nonsensical - the amount of solder added by me is minimal, and is often a better alternative to risking pulling a pad via wicking,
especially on the newer boards where the pads pull easier. If this were a regular concern every ISL9239 or LP8550 soldered on using this method would have bridges, and they don't. Further, the amount of flux here has nothing to do with solder's inclination to flow to the pad next to it.
Again, you're missing the point. Removing the solder balls isn't the problem. The problem is flicking them around the board where they can get lodged between and under things. Remove them with a hot iron, or an iron and wick. Not by
jabbing them loose with tweezers or a multimeter probe.
So you think applying heat to the board unnecessarily makes more sense than flicking it loose and guiding it off the board manually? and you're lecturing me about best practices? I jab them lose and then remove them from the board. You assuming they just get left there is another bad faith argument. Again, you're going for cheap nitpicks to score cheap points.
And do you really want to go back over the Error 53 discussion? We can if you really, really, want to... Just pick it up where you decided to leave it off. If you can’t address the last points in the conversation, don’t bring it back as a zombie thinking you’re right.
You demonstrated a fundamental lack of understanding and could never sufficiently answer my questions I proposed to you. It isn't a zombie, it is here for anyone to read. It demonstrates that while you are good at writing essays, you don't understand the concept.
You don't get 90,000 views. You're closing in on half a billion total views at a run rate that looks to be north of 3,000,000 views a month by issuing a steady stream of provocative content like this. By steady stream, a rough count suggests about 25 videos a month averaging maybe 15 or 20 minutes each coming out to roughly 10 hours a month of what looks like largely unscripted content. You have 1.8M subscribers versus the 1.1M members here at MacRumors. An unscientific sampling indicates most people are watching your videos to see rants like this, not to watch your repair technique. You monetize the videos, take paid comments while you create them, sell merch and have affiliate links for everything from your microphone to your comfy chair. As you point out, a significant amount of your repair traffic finds you through your videos though all this suggests that it’s the repair business that lends an air of credibility to the channel, not the other way around
That video made it to about 90k views at the time of my post. I was referring to the video regarding the NAND failure, not the entirety of the channel, because the entirety of the channel is not about one NAND flaw. This is disingenuous trolling.
You are either completely disconnected from reality to make this comparison, or just on some very well done trolling. Honestly, the point at which every post included clear cut insults was the point at which I should've muted you.
