i would absolutely prefer apple to send me this! _especially_ if they're paying for shipping both ways! it means i can focus on following the directions they wrote for service centers instead of trying to guess which component i'm most likely to break
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if you live in a functioning city you wouldn't actually have 35 kg of equipment shipped to you every time you need to replace a battery because you can just spend half a hour on public transit getting to someone who can do it much faster than you, but the option is still nice
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i _would_ consider adopting the fixtures and paying the $1200 fee but they're model-specific and you can't ask apple to sell you just the swappable parts of the jigs the next time, sadly
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apple interpreting "right to repair" as "we need to not just sell parts but provide accomodation for a person with no skill and possibly limited ability to install them in our existing devices" is excellent and i want to see more of it
manuals/tools will only improve over time
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should this all be involved in repairing a phone? i dunno, you try packing all that complexity into a light and robust package
should this all be involved in replacing a battery? if you want a thin phone that's IP rated, probably, it's a tradeoff
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i think a core issue here is that "i want a right to be provided with supplies and equipment for repairing my devices" and "i want my devices to be easily repairable" are two completely separate wants and you don't get the latter by requiring former
they're both very valuable!
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Can I have "I want my device to receive calls, texts and mobile Internet" and have it be my desktop/laptop instead of a phone? =)
That would be a major improvement. I want to be able to install a PCI modem and call it quits, rather than wasting money on an ineffective Pocket PC!
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Some of them simply include a smartphone SoC running a poorly done / barely maintained fork of Android to interact with the baseband. They implement a compatibility layer in there to convert from the Android radio HAL to another interface exposed to the main OS in the computer.
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It's apparently cheaper to buy and ship low end Qualcomm smartphone SoCs at scale than paying people to implement drivers / HAL for Windows and desktop Linux for the Qualcomm baseband by itself which they certainly do sell as a standalone product...
Are there good ones that don't do this? U-blox R5 looked like a good basis from outside but no idea if implementation is decent.