Get yourself a pocket president to legitimize everything you do and crime becomes legal.

I couldn't get a 5 € USB port exchanged on warranty because of a small tear in the screen. Because those fuckers glued the screen on. I wish I had had the energy and time to sue them for warranty. Not my problem if they make their shit harder to repair.

Edit: Was for Nokia, not Apple.

That was fun to watch

If the battery is dead how can they turn it on to find out what the problem is? Literally an unsolvable problem.

I suppose in theory they could replace the battery and then see if that fixed the issue, and if it didn't then there's another issue, and then fix that issue, but all that seems like a lot of work.

yeah iphone XS, same experience, have done 2 battery replacements now no issues

I’ve had 3 batteries replaced in three separate phones. The closest thing to an “issue” is they broke 2 of the phones, sounds bad right?! But wait, there’s more. Since it’s the phone manufacturer and quite obviously their fault they replaced them with brand new phones of the same model. No more scratches and such. Just had to restore them from backup.

Also had a brand new phone start doing weird shit. I took a video of it doing the weirdness and went into the store. They couldn’t fault it or replicate it in any way. Still replaced because I had proof and the dude was super chill about it.

Obviously, not everyone is going to receive the same service or see having a complete new phone over a replacement battery as a positive but from my experience I can’t fault Apples service so far.

Says "10x that" for emphasis....under sells

(Not criticizing, just wallowing in bitter regret)

inb4 "I got mine for ""free"" from Tmobile!"

You pay $60 for $25 service to pay off a phone that Tmobile already bought 50k units of.

You will eventually pay for it, and more.

Crime against humanity, and a crime against the planet.

Leaving a comment in case someone can link it

As a matter of fact, yes!

So, I've got Samsung appliances that I deeply hate. I didn't purchase them on purpose, they were in the house when we bought it.

If there is a power outage or brown out the control hangs on the fridge and it stops cooling. It has to be reset. To reset, you have to press two touch screen buttons. You have to hit it just right, the press has to be closely synchronized and then hold for 10sec, my girl is unable to get it.

The Samsung oven is currently sitting in the yard in a junk pile to be disposed of. Replaced that hunk of shit with a 1970s GE mechanically controlled stove. Had to replace the indicator lights and the timer unit due to age. Cooks better than the Samsung ever did.

House also came with a Samsung washer and dryer, I'm just waiting for them to do some stupid shit.

I did buy a Samsung TV, it's decent but I am fighting a low-level enshittification war on all the ads and shit it keeps installing. It has particular features that means I don't completely lobotomize it and keep some of the smart TV stuff.

I guess what I'm saying is that Samsung can suck my fucking balls.

I've worked in a repair shop before, and we would actually do similar with specific devices. The difference with us I guess is that we wouldn't take it for repair without you consenting to that prior to us even checking in the device. For things like the original Microsoft Surfaces, and some Lenovo laptops, they're glued together so tightly that opening them up to fix something is basically impossible without breaking the screen that is on it.

Also with us if we took it for repair and couldn't fix it, it either had to come back in the same condition, or we fronted the bill for a replacement.

None of this applies to phones at all though. I'd be really interested to hear what device was so difficult that they couldn't repair it, because all current gen Samsung, Apple and Google Pixel devices are definitely repairable, as long as you have the proper software tools.

I don't think android has much to do with hardware but I could be wrong

Buy fairphone!

You do know that Android is a wholly owned subsidiary of Google, right?

I agree with fuck big corporations, but Android isn’t a savior, it’s basically the only open source option for now. Google is shoving their AI into it, and you can only use the most secure version of Android, GrapheneOS, by buying a Pixel, a phone made by Google.

The better goal is for other open source OS’s to become more mainstream and have the capabilities of Android or iPhone.

Android is the bastard that just rapes you and punches you in the face, unlike the other bastard, who rapes you and your cat and stabs you in the eye.