Apple DELIBERATELY Designed These to Hurt the Consumer.

So basically the idea is that Lewis has been fighting what I think at times for him has been a frustrating and futile losing battle for the right to repair and it is an important battle and honestly it may not have been the biggest , but yes one of the most important. the companies most visible opponents simply for no, I don't want to say no reason because there is a reason why I wish I had a sound card with a kaching noise sound effect, you know, because that's what I'd be playing right now . It is absolutely a reason why they make their devices difficult to repair or in some cases impossible or at least impossible to repair for anyone but themselves, but it is not a

consumer

friendly reason for anyone with a a pinch of common sense, anyone who is within the law or is a legislator.

Who is looking at this application and thinking that yes, we should really protect the corporation's interests here? It just doesn't hold up as it's very obvious that anyone who is against right to repair simply doesn't care about their constituents and simply doesn't care about their users and finally just doesn't care about the environment, That's one of the most frustrating things about certain companies, uh, some fruit-based ones in particular, where they'll talk so much. about how eco-friendly it is or how recycled this piece of aluminum is or whatever and then they'll go and design like professional airpods are a perfect example of a device that didn't need to be disposable, but it's because you do it yourself, that's why is that's for you and for the environment, that's why the location of the battery is like what's the limiting factor there, it's very, very difficult to replace the battery and because the batteries are so small, it's something that many people don't understand.

Lithium batteries is that there are several factors that affect the number of charge cycles they can survive and one of the most important is the size of the battery, the larger its capacity the less likely you are to need to charge it fully. and discharge it completely and the longer it takes, which may be fine, it won't make it last more cycles, but it will certainly give it a much longer life, for example if you have a phone that has a 5,000 milliamp hour battery that when you get it it's good for a day and a half or a day and three quarters a you won't use up that battery as quickly because every day you won't discharge it completely and b you'll actually still be I could use that device for a full day for many years in the future because, first of all, it had excess battery capacity.

Well airpods are really terrible for a number of reasons, number one being that the battery capacity is extremely low which means you are very likely to drain them completely and charge them completely constantly. Another issue is that because they don't really last that long, they last well on the pros, I think it's like four hours with active noise cancellation or something. that as soon as you've lost 25 or 30 40 50 of your capacity, they're not going to be as usable as when you can't even watch a movie on the plane, you're not going to maintain them well. If they are garbage at that point and then problem number three is that they have to be stored in a charging case that will charge them.

One of the most damaging things you can do to a lithium battery is keep it in its current state. fully discharged, either in its fully discharged state or in its fully charged state, so there are all these problems that are inherent to the design and then the worst thing about them is that not only were they not

designed

with easy replacement of the battery, but it also feels like it seems like they were

designed

with difficult battery replacement in mind. Now I just became aware of this really cool service that I think the Airpods battery replacement company recently launched.

Who are these guys called? Yes, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, uh, the employee said. Ah, damn, I can't find it right now. Damn, where are they? Where is the airport autopsy? Oh man, this is a very long article that I'm pretty sure just leads to a link to this company that replaces Airpods batteries for you. Basically what they do is they send the old ones and they don't send them back, yes they send them, they restore them for someone else later and they send you the restored ones that they have already restored and that someone else sent, unfortunately.

I can't find it right now, which is really frustrating. Capsule exchange. Capsule exchange. Yeah, that's great. I have no idea if they are good people or if they just steal your money or whatever. I am not endorsing them in any way. I haven't actually used their service or anything like that, but I'm really excited about what they're doing because for some reason it's like a couple of people identified a problem and decided to solve it, and for some reason Apple the company billions and billions of dollars couldn't do it, but these guys could, so this is a perfect example of how, despite Apple's best efforts to make repairing your device not only difficult but actually Impossible, people worry about this. things and it's really frustrating that it's being blocked and that it's legally allowed because yes, sure you could say yes and the free market will regulate itself, but I think what we've learned is that it's not like that because the powerful players can just ignore or buy or otherwise beat the competition sometimes unfairly or illegally without actually applying, they are a smaller competition, so no, it actually needs to be addressed at a legislative level and, uh, does it? which was one of the other really frustrating things I've been through lately, right, oh man, my in-laws are the poster child for why Tesla has a downright bad attitude toward people's right to repair their vehicles and one of the problems is that Tesla just doesn't have any replacement parts so when we needed to get a windshield because like a rock hits the windshield it happens so when we needed to get a windshield replacement we found out there were only I think two or three places on the entire part comes down from the continent. that made tesla windshields and then when it got scratched, i think there were two paint shops that were willing to do tesla paint because there's just no access to these parts, so you might think like, oh, you know, the market will be regulated only if Tesla's competition has an easy and cheap way to get a replacement windshield or repair the paint on their vehicle, then surely they will have to do it in order to compete, but that is not the case at all, so I'm ending it to write. in the law that you have to make parts available to

consumer

s is simply necessary, so none of this I think necessarily has much to do with the main arguments that Lewis is making in this regard.

You know, he's looking at much broader things. like, hey, lewis, you accidentally click on that link again, you're looking at a much bigger picture, things like agricultural equipment, for example, medical equipment, military equipment, I mean, imagine for a second how corrupt the legislators to not listen to someone and vote against their own budget inflation because they are not authorized or unable to get parts to repair their own equipment that they requisition for their stupid military. Imagine you don't have to because all you need to do is watch a bit of c-span, so it's incredibly frustrating. really important campaign um I was talking to him a moment ago and he seemed a little depressed about this battle but well, maybe this is maybe this is the next one uh maybe this is the next stage, he's trying to raise six million dollars, I don't know.

I know exactly why that number is. I found out about this video shortly before the show, so I haven't seen it yet, but I think it has something to do with making it a direct ballot initiative instead of waiting for politicians to decide. that this is a priority and they won't do it because you know it well, I can't think of a reason why I haven't delved into it, but there is also a long and detailed description on gofundme that, first of all, denotes something really quite interesting which says you can go ahead and add a hundred thousand dollars to the total because there was a direct wire transfer from someone of a hundred thousand dollars, so it overlooked the soy pr.

I think gofundme has a cut. I could be wrong. so skip that, which is pretty cool and you can put it on top so it's already at 324,000, am I right, yeah, 324,500, which is pretty cool too if you expand the readme a little bit I'm sure. that he has better details on this somewhere, but he says I contacted the company that was able to get a direct ballot initiative passed in ma for the right to repair cars. They were very helpful and explained how and why. It costs between five and twenty million to have a chance at success.

I think it goes into more depth on that, but that's yeah, so it's got the details right, so guys, go check that out. I posted links in the video description, uh, oh, here we go. Lewis is actually in the chat sup lewis uh elle ekman had a good article in the New York Times apparently about the marine corps oh man that's the kind of stuff that's like your blatant and obvious corruption that you just can't understand. I don't know, I get it, there are many types of voters with a single issue, you know if it's one way or another, if it's like let's take something super controversial like gun laws, for example, or the right to abortion, as another example.

I get it guys, you're single-issue voters and you see it as a binary choice, there's one person who you perceive does it their way and another who you perceive does it another way, but that's like the whole story. "The reason is that within the two-party system or, in our case, the three-party system, that's why things like leadership races or primaries you're supposed to weed out people who don't care about you." absolutely". We're supposed to turn these things into places where they show so obviously and clearly that they don't care at all and you're supposed to get them out of office, you're supposed to make it impossible for them to win so that someone who supports ideas that are closer than that you think can still be chosen, but they don't have to be complete garbage, that's how it's supposed to work.

There is someone in the chat who said that right to repair is nice, but not everyone needs to do it. trying to repair things, it has nothing to do with the right to repair, yes, not even remotely, um, right, I would, yes, and that also means that you have the right to be able to go to someone to repair your thing so that not necessarily for what to do, I highly suggest you posted that. Check out the gofundme and whether you're going to donate or not, there's a lot of good details in the description below so jump on there and check it out, oh man it's the right thing to do.

Think of it more as the right to repair, okay, yeah, okay, um, Grant says parts availability is one thing, but companies shouldn't be forced to share their software. Okay, so that's a really interesting conversation that we can't get into. completely right now, but at least we can be somewhat okay, so parts availability is one thing and should absolutely be available, but Grant says companies shouldn't be forced to show that their software is okay, so That's a good point, like it's Apple. You know, I don't necessarily want to share my special software that could allow people to reverse engineer iOS and compete with me, say, for example, but if we're talking about the type of software that you need, let's say, for example, pairing a display. or a battery to the phone's motherboard, I would say that the creation of that software in the first place should have been illegal and that the software should not exist and therefore is not a problem now that you don't have to share.

If you make it public, you know, or you can make it public, sure, the privatization of non-openness of software should be yes, it's about yes, so Lewis Lewis said he said it very well here, the right to prepare is about Having the right or the freedom to do so is not about forcing you to fix your things. He says that I wouldn't fix my own microwave because it would probably give my whole family cancer. People should stick to what they know, but at least Lewis would have the option of taking his microwave to someone, I mean, if he's in New York, you know, because he has to pay rent on his unreasonable building that he operates his business out of. business, uh, you know, maybe, you know, maybe it would cost more than a new microwave anyway, but at least I could have a choice, right, I would have a choice, so there are still people very chatty right now, when what you guys should really be doing is being on gofundme and you should be. showing that you care about the right to repair, because you know that even if he doesn't get the full six million, I'd like to think that if enough people get behind this, amomentum and that means some progress is better. that what we have now, guys, and it's possible that, like that hundred thousand dollar donation that came in, it's possible that if enough buzz is generated and enough money is raised, several repair companies that would be interested in this possibly happening could start to be left behind, which could be quite large