

Listen. Apple has a vested interest in you buying a new device. They “fix” your phone, it’ll be… What? Maybe $100? … They sell you a phone and it’s like 10x that.
Most people have so little fucks to give and so little free time to fuck around and find out, that they just shrug and go with it. Apple knows this. If they “can’t” (won’t) fix it, then it must not be able to be fixed anymore; the thoughts of a typical normie Apple user with more money than sense (or shits to give).
This is why Apple is a trillion dollar company. They treat their customers like ATMs. Just keep beating that horse until it stops making money.
If everyone simply replaced the batteries on their phones, not using Apple’s service (even when they’re willing to do the work), then they probably wouldn’t be worth a trillion dollars.
Since there’s enough NPCs out there giving them money to replace perfectly good devices with dead batteries, it will never change.
When you “trade in” your perfectly working phone for a new one, Apple suddenly absolutely can replace the battery, and they do, and then they sell your “unfixable” phone to the next schmuck, and make even more money.
I feel like this shit is so obvious that anyone who buys into the line “can’t be fixed” from Apple (or any other vendor), is insane, or mentally incapable of making rational decisions.
I fully accept that if I send my phone for service from the first party (in my case, Google), and they say it “can’t” be done, that’s not a hard no to fixing my stuff; that’s them refusing to serve me. I need to go somewhere else because I’ve been abandoned by the very people I put my trust into when I bought a device.
Long live gaben.
Honestly, I’m worried for what might happen if steam ever becomes dependent on how happy shareholders are with the amount of money they can squeeze from their users.
A lot of things on steam are not cheap, but the platform itself is really really good.
Keep it up chaps.