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That’s Louis Rossman, a repair technician and YouTuber, who went viral recently for railing against Apple. Apple purposely charges a lot for repairs and you either have to pay up or buy a new device. That’s because Apple withholds necessary tools and information from outside repair shops. And to think, we were just so close to change.

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orasgiveaways

This is really important and let me tell you why.

My mom has an iPhone 6 Plus and hasn’t even had it for a year when one day it suddenly died and would not charge. So she took it to an authorized Apple repair place and they charged her $50 for a diagnostic only to tell her that she would have to buy a brand new phone.

So she decided to go to the AT&T store to talk to our usual guy that upgrades our phones and handles any problems for us. She tells him what’s wrong and he takes her phone to the back only to come out two minutes later, puts her phone on charge and it comes back to life.

She asks him what was wrong with it that he managed to somehow fix when the people at the “authorized apple repair place” couldn’t. And you know what he told her?

“There was just a bit of fuzz in the charging port.”

in-adjective-carcosa

I FUCKING KNEW IT. Listen, I have a MacBook from college. The charger has died twice, and I had to get a new one. This happened for two years in a row around the same time each year.
I’m fucking convinced that their hardware is rigged to “expire” in order to force people to keep buying their shit.

blood-and-pastry

Wait, people are just now learning that Apple has some of the shadiest business practices?

piratebay-premium

You know this isn’t really just apple, company’s do this all the time, everything is rigged to expire and all they want is your money.

tachyon-at-rest

Ohhh no no no, this IS JUST Apple.

All companies want you to buy their new products. None have gone to the lengths that Apple Inc. has gone to make end user repairs as impossible as is legally viable. I have been repairing electronics and computer systems privately, commercially and active duty in the US military for about 30 years.

Apple puts extra effort into special hardware requiring proprietary tools that are only legally produced by their licensed manufacturer and can only be purchased through licensed repair shops if at all.

Companies like iFixit can only exist as profit making companies because they are able to make workaround tools and kits that are still profitable but less of a blatant ripoff than Apple.

sodomymcscurvylegs

Apple has been doing this forever. The way Apple treats consumers is abysmal, and people still eat their products up.

oersae

I had a Galaxy S3 for 5 years while my sister went through 3 different Apple phones in that time period.

lulagoodwin

@elzakitty he’s so cool

neurodivergent-crow

FUCK THE SYSTEM

ivegotyoukeptin

I have all Apple products. A Macbook and an iPhone– Whenever I’ve had to go in for repairs, they SUCK and I’m so glad I’ve had my things covered with their Apple Care. I would be out thousands of dollars if it wasn’t covered.

Anyway, the last time I went in for my laptop about two years ago now… I went in because the lid was misaligned. It came back from ANOTHER repair from them like that. So Apple agreed to fix it and it would take two days. I said okay, and gave them my laptop. Well, a week goes by and I’ve been calling asking about my laptop and they keep saying it’s not ready. I thought that was super weird because a misaligned lid should be a relatively easy fix. At the end of the week, I get the call to go in and get my laptop. It looks okay. The lid is fine. They show me how it opens smoothly and I thank them. I take my laptop and I go home.

When I go home and boot it up EVERYTHING is gone. Just EVERYTHING. I panic. I had years and years of information on that laptop. Pictures, videos, documents, etc. I call them and anyway two hours later I finally get to someone who can give me an explanation:

Apple took it upon themselves to not only fix the lid of my laptop, but to also send my laptop to an undisclosed outside repairman who replaced my entire hard drive without telling me or giving me an option to opt out of the “repair”. They made ABSOLUTELY no mention of this to me when I picked it up. They gave me to compensation either for the things I lost.

Luckily, I was able to restore my laptop from a backup I had made months earlier. I lost things, but it wasn’t as bad as it could have been.

Apple is the shadiest company and I hate that my products are from them honestly. I hate that I genuinely ENJOY their products.

kyraneko

I’m gonna just leave this here:

steel-plated-hearts

a kid at hogwarts who just wants to get a proper education but can’t focus because of all of the shit harry potter and his friends keep getting themselves into

Jenna B. Lacey, age eleven, knew exactly what she was going to do with her life.

She was going to go to Hogwarts, get top grades, and be the youngest female Minister of Magic by age 35.

It would have been a good plan, if she hadn’t been in the same year as Harry Potter.

* * *

Year one started out great. She was sorted into Hufflepuff, did well in all her classes, and aced the exams.

A troll smashed its way through the study room she was in on Halloween, but that wasn’t going to deter her.

* * *

Year two was a disaster. People were getting petrified, and worse—the teachers had to herd them from place to place, which severely cut down on her library time. She had to study in the common room, which meant instead of a nice, quiet atmosphere, she got a soundtrack of nervous Hufflepuffs.

And on top of that, exams were cancelled. It was a disaster.

* * *

Third year, she started to notice a trend.

First the troll, than the petrifications, and now dementor guards and escaped convicts. What did they all have in common? Potter.

After Black broke in and everyone had to spend the night in the Great Hall, interrupting Jenna’s last minute studying for a test the next day, she took to giving Potter angry looks in every class.

He did not notice.

* * *

They announced the Triwizard tournament at dinner the first night of fourth year, and Jenna almost started crying.

Potter was going to take this one over. She just knew it.

And she was right.

Voldemort rose at the end of the year. She honestly didn’t know what she had expected.

* * *

Fifth year brought Umbridge. She joined the DA because she was going to need a better background in defense, but that didn’t mean she was any happier about Potter.

She imagined it was him she was hexing instead of Zachariah Smith.

But, by the end of the year, focus on her studies was impossible. After Dumbledore left, it was complete anarchy.

Potter’s fault. Of course.

* * *

Sixth year she started volunteering in the hospital wing. She needed a backup plan in case Potter fucked it up.

All seemed quiet, until they brought Malfoy in. It was apparently Potter’s fault, which surprised everyone except Jenna.

Later, she was peacefully studying in a little nook on the third floor when some Death Eaters and some other adults started dueling right under her nose.

This was the worst fucking school, honestly.

* * *

They were calling it “The Final Battle.”

Jenna ran through the hall, dodging in and out of the children evacuating, until she saw him.

“POTTER.”

He turned, startled. “Um—Jenna, right? We’re sort of busy—”

She grabbed the front of his shirt and hauled him up until he was eye level with her. “If I’m not Minister of Magic by age 35, it is going to be entirely your fault and I’m going to hurt you.”

She dropped him and stormed away, leaving him to whatever he was doing. She had to fight this goddamn war so she could go back to her fucking studying.

* * *

She became Minister of Magic at age 36.

Fucking Potter.

tehjai

I think I just found the best Harry Potter fanfic

See, that’s what the app is perfect for.