The difficulty of repairing Apple products is often pointed out by consumers.
It’s no secret that Apple products are far from the easiest to repair. The Cupertino company applies a very strict policy in this area and pushes its customers to turn exclusively to authorized repairers for their repair, at the risk of seeing their warranty expired. The right to redress is therefore not something that society wants to promote. An opinion that does not however share its co-founder.
During an interview for Cameo, Steve Wozniak has indeed defended for long minutes the right to redress for consumers. According to him, this right had a significant impact on his own life, but also whether the creation of Apple, and is therefore crucial.
« We wouldn’t have had an Apple if I hadn’t grown up in a very open technological world », Declared Steve Wozniak during his interview. ” Back in the day, when you were buying electronics like televisions and radios, every part of the circuitry and designs was detailed in a handout provided, completely open-source ”. “Even non-tech guys and girls could take the tubes out… and find a tube tester… and if it was bad, buy a new tube. Everyone did this all the time back then », he continued.
The Apple co-founder underlined how much access to open diagrams of different devices at the time of the creation of the Apple company had precisely helped its creation. It is because he was able to dismantle devices thanks to the documents provided that he learned how to do it, but also to repair them and to use the various electrical parts.
« Why stop the community from self-healing? Why stop the right to fix people? Look at the Apple II. It came with complete schematics… this product was the sole source of profit for Apple for the first ten years of the company “, He remembered.
« It’s time to recognize the right to repair more completely “Said Wozniak,” I think companies inhibit it because it gives companies the power [et] control over everything. »
While the Apple co-founder said he was too busy to take part in the fight for consumers’ right to repair, his speech in his favor should help those who are trying to make things happen in this direction.
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