On 10/03/2021 12:38, Fredxx wrote:
On 10/03/2021 10:46, Roger Hayter wrote:
On 10 Mar 2021 at 10:26:26 GMT, "John Walliker"
wrote:

On Wednesday, 10 March 2021 at 09:43:52 UTC, Adrian Caspersz wrote:
Â* On 10/03/2021 08:49, Jeff Layman wrote:
Â* https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56340077
Â*
Â* Will this make any practical difference?
Â* Hopefully.
Â* Apple needs to change its ways.

In contrast, Dell provide detailed downloadable service manuals for
their
computers.
It is also often possible to buy spare parts, either direct from Dell
or from
places
like eBay.

The BBC need to do some explaining.Â* I have a Samsung TV which used to
support
iPlayer but this capability was removed, apparently at the request of
the
BBC, because
its performance was not adequate.Â* I was perfectly happy to accept
occasional
crashes in preference to not having it at all.Â*Â* (I know there are other
ways...)

John

It would be interesting if all software sellers were required to support
Windows 95 and 16MB of RAM.

That would depend on how long a manufacturer would be required to
provide spare parts.

Remind us, when was the last copy of Windows 95 sold?

Not sure win95 is really a valid comparison. You can still write
software for it today if you wanted, and it's not as if MS ever tried
the keep the API secret or prevent others from developing for it.

Quite a different prospect when you take your 15 month old macbook to
the Apple shop, and they say it's not repairable, but we can sell you a
new one, recycle the old, and no, you can't have your data back. (or
they quote a repair fee 50% more than the cost of replacement) etc.

In many cases there is no official repair option - especially things
like water damaged iPhones - Apple categorically state nothing can be
done and refuse to even acknowledge that 3rd party repair is an option.


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Cheers,

John.

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