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Apple vs Right to Repair: Part 2! - YouTube
Channel: Marques Brownlee
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so today apple announced their
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self-service repair program and a pretty
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major flip on their stance on right to
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repair and yes there is still a bit of a
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catch but my first reaction one seeing
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this was
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well i ain't never ever seen you act
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like this before it does seem kind of
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crazy we're seeing them like add ports
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back to the macbook pro going back on
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that stuff and now flipping a stance on
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the right to repair but my second
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reaction was
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why so i made a video a little while
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back this year all about right to repair
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that i highly suggest watching talks
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about the concept a bunch of companies
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with various stances around the issue
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and why it's important the concept of
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being able to repair the thing that you
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bought should be very simple but in 2021
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it's not now apple isn't the only
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company guilty of various bad practices
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like this but
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they are one of the most influential
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consumer facing companies
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ever right so any step they make in
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favor of right to repair
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is a pretty major deal so here's the
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announcement they've made and i'll link
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it below apple announced the
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self-service repair program which allows
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customers who are comfortable with
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completing their own repairs access to
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apple's genuine parts and tools this is
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starting with the iphone 12 and 13
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lineups starting early next year and
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soon we'll add m1 max after that and the
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initial phase of this program will focus
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on the most commonly serviced modules
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such as iphone's display
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battery and camera so basically
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independent certified repair shops have
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had access to some tools and parts for
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some very basic repairs to stuff like
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the iphone and now individuals
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like you and me will be added to the
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list of people who can get access to
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those tools and parts
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that's the pretty big deal so let's say
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you drop your iphone or something on the
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ground the screen cracks okay you've
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already always had the option to go to
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the apple store and have them do it for
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that price or you could take it to an
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independent repair shop and pay for them
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to do it but now you have the extra
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option if you're a confident and
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competent enough person
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to get that manual get those individual
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parts straight from apple and do the
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repair yourself and then you can
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actually send back the old or broken
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parts to apple so they can recycle them
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and then you'll get a credit back on
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your account for some of that value
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that's not bad so i on the surface
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i think this is great i think it's huge
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the the potential e-waste being removed
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the potential repairs that have been
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unlocked the real choice that's being
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offered to us
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and the potential ripples this sends
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throughout the industry are all great
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but
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it's definitely it's definitely still a
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first step and here's why i say that so
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number one it's still the pretty simple
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fairly short list so this goes back to
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the point i made in the original right
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to repair video which is that devices
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like these phones and laptops are more
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complex than ever and are built way more
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tightly integrated than ever which makes
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them much more difficult to repair so
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even if an individual like you or me now
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has the instructions and the parts
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officially from apple uh some of the
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deeper repairs like parts of the
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motherboard like i could do a battery or
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a screen no problem but you know some of
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the memory might be going wrong and you
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want to replace some of that it's all
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still soldered together and it's
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integrated so much that you'd probably
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have to replace the whole thing so that
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hasn't really changed now i will say i
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have seen some tear downs of the new 14
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and 16 inch macbook pros and the battery
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looks noticeably more repair friendly
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there's pull tabs under some of the
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cells now only a few screws to get
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inside the bottom so this does appear to
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be premeditated at least a little bit
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but i still don't see people like you
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and i taking parts of the motherboard
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off but then number two this is also
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something that a lot of independent
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repair shops and people like lewis
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rossman have already aired their
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grievances about which is that the list
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of those repairs that are being
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supported by apple is still so short
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it's like battery screen cameras
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that's it and if it's anything outside
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of that there still will not be official
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apple documentation or ports parts made
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available
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that also has not changed now the fact
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is
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most iphone repairs will be under those
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like three most common ones i mean
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screens and batteries got to be number
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one and number two apparently that's
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over 200 parts and tools already being
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made available just for those big three
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macs being added to the list will add a
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lot more and those are probably the only
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types of repairs i would personally at
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this moment be trying to do myself but
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for repairs beyond that
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ports
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buttons
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speakers and mics and things like that i
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would like independent repair shops to
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be able to fix those things with
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official apple parts and documentation
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as well apple says the program will be
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expanding later next year but as of
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right now
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that has also not changed so why did
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apple do this i mean they've been
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they've been notoriously against pretty
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much any right to repair stance for
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forever and this is so unlike them
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well number one i think a lot of the
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impending legislation
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caused by the right to repair movement
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has put pressure on them like there's
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you know ftc
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regulation coming down there's also
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things in europe in law that have sort
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of pressured apple and they're sort of
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getting out ahead of it even a
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presidential order has gone through in
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the u.s i think it needs a lot more work
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to be stronger but apple's seeing all
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this stuff and is getting out ahead of
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it a little bit but also number two
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this is fantastic pr like this is a this
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is a great headline especially for apple
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now again a lot of the stuff still
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unchanged we have a lot of questions we
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don't know prices yet how much these
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parts are going to cost for individuals
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we don't know the qualifications if
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everyone's going to be able to get these
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parts or not and there's still a bunch
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more details of the program that have
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yet to be unveiled when it does start
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next year
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but
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it's a great first step i will
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absolutely give them that it's a great
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first step and since it's a great first
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step for apple one of the biggest
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companies out there
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it's a great first step for the industry
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as a whole
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so i like it but yeah this is great i
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almost want to like take a broken iphone
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and just repair it just for the hell of
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it uh but i'm curious what you guys
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think i don't know it feels like a new
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look apple whether it's just them
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getting out in front of legislation and
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potential problems in the future or
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maybe a little bit of them is also
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listening to what people are saying
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i don't know either way it got us here
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so it's a good day for the beginning of
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the movement either way that's been it
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thanks for watching catch you guys in
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the next one
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peace
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