... and failing your warranty.
your ignorance is showing again
1st not every country in the world voids your warranty when you or a 3rd party repair place repairs/upgrades your device.
Heck even in the USA it been legal for decades (The Magnuson–Moss Warranty Act of 1975)
but even if your lie was true, do you throw out everything you use after its 30 day, 90 day or 1 year warranty?
if not then that argument you just made was moot.
Wha you say is irrelevant to virtually every Apple user save for the very few who do have the skill and also want to invest their time.
NO IT IS NOT, seriously are you trolling?
just cause you or even the majority of apple users dont do it, they will utilize someone who does.
if we loose the right to repair it affects talented people and idiots alike.
Personally, even if I had the skill, I would always go to a service provider, simply because its cheaper and less bother for me.
B.S
1st it's not a universal truth the service provider is cheaper and/or less bother.
in-fact some services apple doesn't even offer.
if you had the skill you would do what is most advantageous to you depending on your timeframe and finances.
here are 2 hypothetical Scenarios:
scenario one:
Genius Bar says that the $800 logicboard replacement.
you, since you are skilled.
open it up and see it's a five cent capacitor that's dead, whether it's worthwhile to you is whether you can live without the computer long enough to get a new five cent capacitor.
considering you as you have stated would have the skills required.
personally in that scenario if it was a personal machine I would bother to do the soldering,but the reason my shop sends those things out to the Rossman group if the client is willing to pay or tell them we cant help them for the price they are willing to pay, is because my hourly rate to open it up diagnose and then close it back up is worth more than what a lot of people in my neighborhood want to pay.
Of course in the scenario if right to repair laws existed. I too could offer the logic board, I would be buying it from Apple at whatever wholesale rates they would determine, and I could hypothetically take a smaller margin for myself thus coming in cheaper for the client than an official Apple Store.
scenario 2: you have a new MacBook Pro without a socketed SSD, the logic board breaks and Apple says they are unable to repair your laptop,
worse the computer is in such a state that their lifeboat connector data recovery tool cannot recover the data.
(not to mention even when the data is recoverable Apple rarely if ever does data recovery)
in this scenario your only option is third-party or yourself if you had the skills because Apple doesn't do actual data recovery.
Oh, right, Rossmann. The guy who makes money running a youtube channel where he can tell you selective "facts" about things.]
he makes observations based on what he sees while doing the repairs Apple won't do.
that's a fact.
if you're saying he points out more negatives then positives, as someone whos been a technician for decades let me tell you no customers bring you a working computer.
so you focus on the negatives as that's what you deal with.
even if you havent been a computer tech even a customer service employee can tell you the same type of stuff.
I'd take Louis' rants over apple's outright lies any day (when they say something unfixable when they say the lack of a headphone jack is courageous etc. )
don't get me wrong i love apple but they are notoriously dishonest.
When you look at all these repair gurus: they are not making money by actually repairing stuff. They are either showing it off on youtube and making money via monetisation (like Rossman), or they sell merchandise (iFixit).
while I don't doubt youtube and sponsorships supplement the youtube "celebrity" repair community
you only need to look at the fact that there are computer/electronics repair shops not on youtube to disprove your lie on this one.
