they are trying to make repairing our items illegal. Here is how to fight back:

[dixiegrrrrl]

f you’ve tried to open any iDevice—iPad, iPhone, iMac, any of them—within the last four years, you've come face-to-face with Apple’s very small, five-pointed Do Not Enter sign. It's an overt declaration that your phone, or your computer, or your tablet is not really yours to tamper with, a public statement that you are not qualified to fix your own things.

Manufacturers have attempted to use the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to claim that they own the software that makes an electronic an electronic, and tampering with that software is a copyright violation. There's the fact that Apple quietly stopped accepting applications for "Authorized Service Provider" designations in 2010. There are the seizures of "counterfeit" parts being imported from China that may be legally legitimate. There are the lease programs carriers and Apple have started that ensure you won't ever actually "own" a phone ever again.

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-to-fix-everything

Here is how you can take control back over your stuff:
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-to-fix-everything

[Spider Jerusalem]

1. I don't buy Apple products. Problem solved.

[Agnosticsherbet]

2. I don't buy Apple products.

[MFM008]

3. I also do not have or ever had a product by

[temporary311]

4. Apple has almost always been pretty dismal

in this regard. So yeah, don't buy Apple.

[7Inches]

5. Apple Is

giving Louis Rossmann trouble because he shows people how to fix Apple products.

https://www.youtube.com/user/rossmanngroup/videos

[hobbit709]

6. the i stands for i'm an idiot for buying this.

I quit having anything to do with Apple when they got all proprietary with the Mac compared to the old Apple II.

[Sherman A1]

7. I appreciate that you may not own or like apple products

however, name calling is neither necessary or will advance the conversation.

[7Inches]

8. The Cult Of Apple

[Sherman A1]

11. And I repeat the previous post

that I made.....

[Sherman A1]

23. And the point can be made

Without referring to those who buy and use their products names. I am very aware of Apple's many problems and those shared by other electronic makers.

[Bluenorthwest]

24. I get what you are saying but it is ironic because the entire marketing strategy of Apple is

about depicting those who use other products as stupid, unattractive and dull while Apple products are magical and used by inspired creative geniuses who are all of them simply adorable. That's Apple culture and that's why it gets snarky responses.

[DetlefK]

9. The Foxconn-suicides convinced me to not buy anything from Apple. Ever.

[joshcryer]

10. Louis Rossmann

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl2mFZoRqjw_ELax4Yisf6w

[Ohioblue22]

13. Yet people Keep buying apple so where's the incentive to change

[rjsquirrel]

14. Uh you can buy a torx screwdriver

So the article starts with a dumb premise.

[Travis_0004]

16. Apple uses pentalobe screws, not torx

[rjsquirrel]

17. They used to use torx back in the day

Either way my point stands. The screw type is not an obstacle to tear down. I have a pentalobe bit set too.

Of course once you're inside that's another thing.

ETA That I just checked and Apple uses both torx and pentalobe in current machines. So there's that.

[MineralMan]

22. Get 'em here or anywhere tools are sold:

https://www.amazon.com/Wiha-26794-Precision-Pentalobe-Screwdriver/dp/B00GY8VQQE

[LongtimeAZDem]

27. You can buy pentalobe screwdrivers all over the place (nt)

[ileus]

15. Hopefully I'll never have to buy an apple product.

Hated those bastards since the 80's...see no reason to stop now.

[rjsquirrel]

18. Awww

Bastards?

The most successful company on earth is sad you don't like them. As for me, I learned to program on Apple machines in the 80s, have owned dozens of their products, and am delighted to say that buying a big bunch of their stock in the late 90s paid for my three kids' college educations.

What's the better company whose computers or phones you use? Obviously you're online. Name one PC maker that has better business practices.

[hobbit709]

20. How many billions does the most successful company hide offshore to avoid taxes?

My first computer was one of these
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_8800
I helped a lot of people getting started with the original Apple I and Apple II.
When Apple got all proprietary with the early Macs, I quit having anything to do with them. With the early Apples you could build and modify boards for whatever custom purpose you wanted.
I built quite a few for a couple of research projects for people at UT.
I also built prototype boards for the early PCs at IBM. Take a stack of engineering drawings and pinout lists, wirewrap it all on a breadboard, run the smoke test and when the smoke clears, figure out where they went wrong.

[rjsquirrel]

21. And all of it is made

in China and Thailand by multinationals with foreign asset holdings. A few top end chips are manufactured in the US.

I go way back to DEC and wang mainframes too.

[Javaman]

19. meh. I've replaced the battery in my old ipod several times.

they can come and get me if they want.

[Iggo]

25. Me, too. Pain in the ass getting it open.

Iphone, too. Though that was easier to get open than the Ipod. Still, that super tiny screw was a motherfucker. I think that thread only goes around like one-an-a-half times. I dropped it and it took me the better part of an hour to find it on my tan-colored carpet.

But I did it because they're mine. I own them.

[liberal N proud]

26. I don't buy Apple

They are over priced to begin with and obsolete tomorrow