A Series of Unfortunate Repair Prevention (Right to Repair/DRM Updates)

(Season 3) Episode 9

EPISODE NOTES: This episode (9) is airing before Episode 8. Episode 8 will air next.

Welcome to yet another update episode, where we tell you how things have gone horribly wrong since the last time we've broached the topic(s) of the day. That topic? Right to Repair! It's gotten worse.
(also DRM, DRM is worse)

Sources can be found on our website, as always.
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Alternatively, “Apple’s bad decisions are contagious”

EPISODE NOTES: This episode (9) is airing before Episode 8. Episode 8 will air next.

Welcome to yet another update episode, where we tell you how things have gone horribly wrong since the last time we’ve broached the topic(s) of the day. That topic? Right to Repair! It’s gotten worse.
(also DRM, DRM is worse)

Sources:

Hugh Jeffreys’ Videos:

iPhone 12’s Latest Approach at Deterring 3rd Party RepairSamsung Starts Blocking 3rd Party Repairs? – Galaxy A51 Teardown and Repair Assessment

Smartphone Patent Wars (Mention):

Bloomberg, 29 March 2012, “Apple’s War on Android“

Apple refusing to repair/being difficult with iMac Pros (Mention):

Youtube.com, Snazzy Labs, “The Apple Store Genius Bar Broke My $5,000 iMac Pro”Youtube.com, Linus Tech Tips, “Apple REFUSED to Fix our iMac Pro”Youtube.com, Linus Tech Tips, “Fixing the Unfixable iMac Pro with Louis Rossmann!”Youtube.com, ZONEofTECH, “How Apple REFUSES to fix my $5000 MacBook Pro!”

Samsung copying Apple:

CNET, 8 August 2012, “Apple cites Samsung doc as proof it wanted to copy iPhone“The Verge, 23 December 2020, “Samsung’s deleting ads that mocked Apple for not including a charger in the box“

Synology NAS:

ServeTheHome, 4 February 2021, “Synology Launches Enterprise Hard Drive Line and Starts Locking Drives for New NASes“Android Central, 8 February 2021, “No, Synology is not enforcing use of its own HDDs on DiskStation NAS models”

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