Today’s news, Apple suddenly announced the opening of repair rights for its equipment, and will launch a self-service repair program starting in 2022, allowing users to repair iPhone 12 and iPhone 13 through their own channels through the sale of parts, tools, and repair manuals. Although this may seem like an outpouring of compassion from Apple, in fact, Apple’s previous practices were suspected of encroaching on consumer rights.
The biggest reason why Apple’s equipment is difficult to repair and replace is that Apple does not want third parties to obtain its components, manuals, and diagnostic tools, in order to increase consumers’ reliance on the enterprise, and better restrict consumer behavior, and even lobby against grants Consumers’ right to repair the law. iFixit founder and CEO Kyle Wiens (Kyle Wiens) also said that this new plan represents a major change in Apple’s concept.
Perhaps the biggest reason for this opening of maintenance rights is that in May of this year, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) began to publicly support consumers’ independent maintenance rights. The FTC issued a report saying that there is insufficient evidence to prove that Apple and other companies restrict independent repairs are reasonable. In July, US President Biden personally signed an executive order to encourage the FTC to formulate new regulations to impose restrictions on the ability of mobile phone manufacturers to restrict their own equipment repairs.
Since then, related movement organizations have begun to promote user maintenance rights, including mutual fund company Green Century, US Public Research Interest Group, etc., and they lobbied among major technology companies, hoping The company can open up repairs and protect the rights of consumers. In the following period of time, Microsoft and some other companies have signed related maintenance open policies, and Apple is also under pressure from competitors in the same industry.
However, Apple currently only provides self-repair services for iPhone 12 and iPhone 13, and there is no news about other products. It should be said that this time is a victory for the team sports, successfully resisting the “kidnapping” of consumers by the technology giants. CELL PHONE BATTERIES – Shop a wide selection of cell phone Batteries at www.oriccabattery.co.uk Fast Shipping.