I watched a video of a guy fitting a screen and suddenly withdrawing for no real reason, dropping the screen on a screwdriver underneath. It looks completely staged, especially his reaction to having broken it.
If you watched the video you'd have seen that Linus specifically calls out that that was a cheesy CSI style recreation staged for the intro if the first video. He specifically addresses it.
Ah well than fuck me on that part, my bad. I'll remove that part from my post.
If I bought any expensive product and I broke parts of it, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect the manufacturer to be able to get it fixed for a price, as long as it's less than buying a new one. It's parts, you can replace parts - Even a lot of parts. It's not a god-given right, it's just how it should be, anything else is clearly anti-consumer, since you're forcing the consumer to pay for a new product despite plenty of the parts still working.
Agree for the most part, up until the bold. For me that's a) take care of your stuff and b) if the cost or difficulty of repair makes it not that viable then I wouldn't see it as an expectation. Obviously it would be better if it happened everywhere for everything, but my point is that I don't see it as that a surprising thing, rather I would be surprised if this were limited to just Apple. That I don't know though, whether it is. The outrage is positioned as though it is but that would genuinely be a surprise to me.
I have no idea if it's just Apple, maybe other companies do that, It'll piss me off just the same it was Microsoft or Sony or whatever. The outrage is positioned against Apple in this case because... The thing Linus broke was an Apple product. No one necessarily said this is exclusive to Apple.
If this was common you'd expect less outrage since it would be standard. As there is outrage it leads me to believe this isn't standard across companies. I thought it would be. I am surprised. I'm not defending Apple the company I'm saying that it surprises me that this presumably isn't the case for most others.
As I said it would be great if everything in the world was pro-consumer. It isn't though, and to some extent you have to take responsibility. If you break your product and you're left with a broken product then in my mind, that sucks but that's on you. You hope that they can repair it for a reasonable price but it wouldn't be an expectation that they must do so.
Next time watch the vids. What you claim is clearly not the case. Apple is full of crap when it comes to this one, and Linus' pink calculator seals the deal.
If you don't think he's a brat, then you don't. I had to stop watching his videos because of the extremely poor smug attitude he carries around in a lot of them, the Apple fiasco for example. Poor scripting, poor delivery. If he would just act professional, and not put these scripted problematic issues, then I can take him seriously. He's a bad actor. That's my person feeling on it. If anyone thinks he's awesome, does great work, etc., then great, they like his stuff. I personally don't.
Your picture was overkill, so I fixed it for you. The screen is broken, yet Apple are charging the same amount for the repair as an entire new computer. This would be like BMW charging you $65K for a new set of tires.BMW is so full of $#@% and won't fix my car. They're telling me my only option is to pay $65K for a new one.
Because certain posters have to make every topic they post in about themselves, no matter the actual subject.
Because for some reason some people seem to take it personally.
Nah, he's still around I think. Linus isn't the type to fire someone over this. It's a risky process and accidents happen. I know Linus himself was sweating bullets when they were doing their teardown of the 5k iMac a few years ago, so I'm sure he knew how difficult that kind of work might be. The guy is also a former Apple repair tech, which goes to show just how difficult working on Apple products can be.
Thanks. Find it a good video. He manages to rebuke the arguments people had towards the first video and exposes some of Apple's absurd handling of their own business partners.
If it's monitzed? According to a quick Google it's about $2K American per million views .
Purposefully destroyed? What? Dude. I don't think you watched the video. Try picking out something he actually says or does and refuting it next time you want to feel smart.
Not everyone takes apart an all-in-one computer while at the same time knowing that the company they bought that computer from has ZERO self repair channels and shitty authorized repair channels.
No other fucking company would DEMAND you to rebuy the entire goddamned product because you broke part of it. Apple is breaking the law. That's it.
That neither my post or the bold I quoted are normal circumstances at all.
This hasn't done anything beyond the reach of his youtube channel and of those viewers, the people that don't like Apple anyways. Let's take a survey and ask how many people were planning on spending $5k for an iMac, were planning on voiding the warranty, knowing it wouldn't be repaired, so they decided not to buy it.
Don't buy a computer if they can't provide repairs, even if its their fault. And considering it's not even a good deal, not bothering is a net profit all around.
So people make salty posts like this.
