THE VIDEO SHELF · apple repairability
Why I don't use Apple products
Louis Rossmann, an independent Apple repair shop owner, explains why he does not use Apple products, drawing on his experience of repairing devices he considers designed to fail and hard to fix.
Why HN readers recommended it
Cited in right-to-repair and Apple threads as an insider's view of Apple hardware design and repairability.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Louis Rossmann
- Topic
- apple repairability
- Format
- commentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2017–2021
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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I love Louis Rossman's video about why he does not use Apple products. Near the beginning, he talks about how he worked in a recording studio, and people would bring in background music they wanted to sing along with on MP3 players, and he was …
drewg123 on Hacker News · 2021-10
In 20 years of the iPodNote how Apple hosts neither of those manuals? Apple doesn't care if their products are user serviceable at all, and has repeatedly shown malice towards the repair industry or long lived products at all. Louis Rossmann talking about how Apple devices are designed to fail: …
posguy on Hacker News · 2017-08
In Why Apple and other tech companies are fighting to keep devices hard to repair
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