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*That’s especially interesting if you like to re-purpose electronic components for purposes undreamt-of by the original manufacturers.<\/p>\n

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https:\/\/doctorow.medium.com\/apples-cement-overshoes-329856288d13<\/a><\/p>\n

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The alternative was to treat drops, slips, cracks and battery depletion as features, not bugs. Apple could go to war against repair, and in so doing, it could capitalize on those mishaps by selling its customers new devices on a regular basis \u2014and annihilate the market for used, refurbished systems.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the path Apple took. The company embraced planned obsolescence<\/a>, designing products with ever-shorter duty cycles. It recruited the US Customs Agency to block the importation of refurbished parts from overseas, falsely labeling these as \u201ccounterfeits,\u201d<\/a> even going so far as to etch minuscule Apple logos on parts that no one would ever see, as a means of invoking trademark law<\/a>so it could have refurbished parts seized at the border….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

*That’s especially interesting if you like to re-purpose electronic components for purposes undreamt-of by the original manufacturers.   https:\/\/doctorow.medium.com\/apples-cement-overshoes-329856288d13 (…) The alternative was to treat drops, slips, cracks and battery depletion as features, not bugs. Apple could go to war against repair, and in so doing, it could capitalize on those mishaps by selling its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"yoast_head":"\nApple's extensive anti-repair scheming | Artmaker Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Apple's extensive anti-repair scheming | Artmaker Blog\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/apples-extensive-anti-repair-scheming\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Apple's extensive anti-repair scheming | Artmaker Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Apple's extensive anti-repair scheming | Artmaker Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/apples-extensive-anti-repair-scheming\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Artmaker Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-05-24T07:37:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Bruce Sterling\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/\",\"name\":\"Artmaker Blog\",\"description\":\"on Toshareproject.it - 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