>iFixit pointed to the fruity firm's switch from wire cables used in previous generation models to thinner, seemingly more fragile cables selected in Apple's pursuit of ever more svelte designs.
>Repeatedly opening and closing the lid in order to actually use the thing is wearing out the cable. This is causing the backlight to fail, in what fanbois have dubbed "Stage Light", before eventually giving out completely, usually when the laptop is opened more than about 40 degrees.
>Apple has yet to provide a statement to the effect of "you're opening it wrong", although it's surely only a matter of time.
>The problem with the failed cable is that it cannot be replaced. This means that afflicted customers need to shell out $600 for a new screen unless an Apple Genius takes pity on their plight. After all, one would expect a laptop that costs several thousand dollars to last longer than a couple of years.
I suspect Apple is going to do a stock buy back and maybe, hopefully, start reverting.
Bentley Clark
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Julian Scott
It seems being a laptop manufacturer is a crossroads. If you make durable aesthetic laptops people won't have to upgrade but if you make a flimsy easily breakable aesthetic expensive laptops then people will upgrade? What gives?
Mason Lewis
>I suspect Apple is going to do a stock buy back and maybe, hopefully, start reverting. Im curious, I know Apple's made a ton of major fuck ups in the past but have they ever done this?
They'll probably just offer an extended warranty period for like 6 months that you have to sign up for.
Nah, Apple will blame it on user error to delay having to do something about it.
When a new model has been out for over a year they will finally agree to replace it but only if you bought one less than a year before that date (ie: impossible unless you bought some old stock). That's what Apple always does.
When you have shitty consumer protection laws, this is what you get. There should be a reasonable expectation of how long a product should last, like how it is here over in Kangaroo Land.
Wyatt Morales
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Eli Harris
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Nolan Peterson
The harder it is to fix, the more it costs to fix. You fed into your own dung-machine Appletoddler, now eat that pozzed poo poo.
Jaxson Hernandez
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Christopher Johnson
>JUS BUY A NEW ONE YOU FUCKING POORFAG
Daniel Morales
I'm just going to put out there that Apple was well aware of the potential issue before they even shipped the first device with this ribbon cable. Once the inevitable class-action lawsuit hits the internal docs will come out just like they did for the iPhone 6 with bendgate (and then touch disease). Part of the problem with Apple, possibly in particular, is that they've clearly made this design decision around the screens before fully testing it so that once it becomes obvious there's an issue it's already too late and so they just push it out knowing that they'll sell millions, they'll make billions and that they can absorb the warranty and lawsuit costs.
Wyatt Gutierrez
>cue to macfags apologizing the brand by pointing out this issues get coverage because many people own the machines, and the numbers being "marginal reports"
Adrian Ross
Based + Sataniapilled
Levi Martin
Isn't there something of a proverb or saying about a merchant who sold the same item to someone over and over? That's basically tech companies are trying to achieve. They're trying to make technology items, CONSUMABLE items. They're working very hard to convince people to upgrade to the new item when it comes out, even if it's pretty much just a cosmetic sidegrade.
And it's working. People have fallen for the consumerist trap.
