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Apple devices are repairable. They just don't make it easy for you to do it.

But in every city there will be hundreds of shops which will repair it for you.



Repairing an apple device is extraordinarily expensive compared to many of the other brands because apple devices tend to have everything glued and soldered together so if of one part dies you have to replace half of the laptop.

Unless the device is brand new it is almost never a cost effective idea to repair an apple device even if the actual part broken is very cheap.


Apple is lobbying and fighting hard to ban these exact repair stores so I'm not sure that's a great argument.


That's not true at all. They're fighting to stop stores from repairing items claiming that they're using original Apple parts when they're actually refurbished.

This is the kind of misrepresentation that I'm talking about and it hurts both the "right to repair" movement and the tech industry.


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