So you're saying that a Macbook Pro isn't up to snuff if they replace a single broken keyboard key. They need to replace the battery, too. I mean, the user might have pressed on the key slightly harder than normal to determine it was broken, which would flex the case slightly and put a non-stardard pressure on the battery, weakening the casing.
Stop justifying their terrible policies. Their decisions are purely economic and magical thinking about technology lets them get away with it. A bent data pin on a connector doesn't lead to a catastrophic cascade of system-wide failures. If it does, then Apple shouldn't be making computers. I guarantee that at some point in the production line those connectors were heaped in a bucket. Maybe a standard bucket, but a bucket nonetheless.
Anecdote time. I got curious about some old PC parts I had in the basement and decided to throw them together. Motherboard, 1st gen Core 2 Duo (with heatsink and original thermal paste), Nvidia 6800GT, etc - pieces from 10+ years ago that I rode hard sat unprotected in a milk crate for over a decade and were moved across the country 3 times. I've been using them as a NAS for the last 6 months (powered 24/7) with no problems. It isn't even in a case. I use a scissors to short the power leads directly on the motherboard to boot it. And that's far from the first time I've janked a computer together.
Perhaps a better example, I volunteer regularly at a computer recycling place and regularly see 5+ year old laptops that were given to people that must have used them for fighting off bears and stirring soup. We clean em up, test em, and put them up for resale. Sure there are occasionally broken ones, but they're surprisingly rare. No one there has ever seen a computer even remotely resembling the condition of the Macbook brought in by the lady in Louis's follow up video.
If you really believe that a tiny dent in a corner of the chassis leads to irreparable, functional damage to an Apple computer, why on Earth would you continue to buy them? And if you don't believe that, why do you allow them to cloud your logic to the point where it's even defensible?
And while I'm ranting, you don't need moisture indicator stickers. Is there corrosion? Is there evidence of arcing/shorts? Are there water stains or bits of debris? That's all you need. Instead, companies put bright stickers that change colors so that it looks impressive and irrefutable to customers and so they don't have to train their technicians to identify water damage.
It isn't just Apple, but companies love to follow Apple's lead in all the wrong ways, so if people don't start pushing back on these anti-consumer moves, we'll all end up trying to convince ourselves that notches on phones aren't the dumbest design choice of the last century. Anyways, sorry for ranting. The whole situation just bothers me.
Stop justifying their terrible policies. Their decisions are purely economic and magical thinking about technology lets them get away with it. A bent data pin on a connector doesn't lead to a catastrophic cascade of system-wide failures. If it does, then Apple shouldn't be making computers. I guarantee that at some point in the production line those connectors were heaped in a bucket. Maybe a standard bucket, but a bucket nonetheless.
Anecdote time. I got curious about some old PC parts I had in the basement and decided to throw them together. Motherboard, 1st gen Core 2 Duo (with heatsink and original thermal paste), Nvidia 6800GT, etc - pieces from 10+ years ago that I rode hard sat unprotected in a milk crate for over a decade and were moved across the country 3 times. I've been using them as a NAS for the last 6 months (powered 24/7) with no problems. It isn't even in a case. I use a scissors to short the power leads directly on the motherboard to boot it. And that's far from the first time I've janked a computer together.
Perhaps a better example, I volunteer regularly at a computer recycling place and regularly see 5+ year old laptops that were given to people that must have used them for fighting off bears and stirring soup. We clean em up, test em, and put them up for resale. Sure there are occasionally broken ones, but they're surprisingly rare. No one there has ever seen a computer even remotely resembling the condition of the Macbook brought in by the lady in Louis's follow up video.
If you really believe that a tiny dent in a corner of the chassis leads to irreparable, functional damage to an Apple computer, why on Earth would you continue to buy them? And if you don't believe that, why do you allow them to cloud your logic to the point where it's even defensible?
And while I'm ranting, you don't need moisture indicator stickers. Is there corrosion? Is there evidence of arcing/shorts? Are there water stains or bits of debris? That's all you need. Instead, companies put bright stickers that change colors so that it looks impressive and irrefutable to customers and so they don't have to train their technicians to identify water damage.
It isn't just Apple, but companies love to follow Apple's lead in all the wrong ways, so if people don't start pushing back on these anti-consumer moves, we'll all end up trying to convince ourselves that notches on phones aren't the dumbest design choice of the last century. Anyways, sorry for ranting. The whole situation just bothers me.