In a rare move for the company, they just stated they will be giving 3rd party repair shops access to official tools and parts to continue supporting out of warranty Apple devices. A major step in...
In a rare move for the company, they just stated they will be giving 3rd party repair shops access to official tools and parts to continue supporting out of warranty Apple devices.
A major step in the right direction for right to repair, from a company that often sets the trends for other tech companies (for better or worse).
The program will require at least one person at each business to have a Mac or iOS technician certification (apple offers classes for this), and they are specifically not giving these parts out to resellers who will just mark them up and sell them to anyone, but rather to repair shops with trained people who continue to fix apple devices.
Louis Rossman had some good things to say about this here
In a rare move for the company, they just stated they will be giving 3rd party repair shops access to official tools and parts to continue supporting out of warranty Apple devices.
A major step in the right direction for right to repair, from a company that often sets the trends for other tech companies (for better or worse).
The program will require at least one person at each business to have a Mac or iOS technician certification (apple offers classes for this), and they are specifically not giving these parts out to resellers who will just mark them up and sell them to anyone, but rather to repair shops with trained people who continue to fix apple devices.
Louis Rossman had some good things to say about this here
Linus Tech Tips also discussed this here