Why I don't use Apple products
Louis Rossmann2 HN recommenders · recommended in 2 months, 2017-2021
2.5M views · 11 years ago · commentary · dated
Louis Rossmann, an independent Apple repair shop owner, explains why he does not use Apple products, drawing on his experience of repairing devices he considers designed to fail and hard to fix.
Cited in right-to-repair and Apple threads as an insider's view of Apple hardware design and repairability.
24:48The horrible truth about Apple's repeated engineering failures.
Louis Rossmann
3.9M views • 8 years ago
1:03:42Apple uses spite to force planned obsolescence.
Louis Rossmann
3.5M views • 11 years ago
18:27Apple botches Macbook board design: again!
Louis Rossmann
280K views • 7 years ago
7:11Louis Rossmann dismantles Apple's PR stunt "repair program"
Louis Rossmann
515K views • 6 years ago
7:17Apple & Customs STOLE my batteries, that they won't even provide to AASPs.
Louis Rossmann
1.6M views • 8 years ago
48:48What does authorized repair do? Let's find out!
Louis Rossmann
119K views • 9 years ago
13:47What is Right to Repair? An introduction for curious people.
Louis Rossmann
188K views • 6 years ago
16:09Apple's Independent Repair Program is a useless PR stunt.
Louis Rossmann
85K views • 6 years ago
11:34How Apple authorized repair refurbishes Macbooks to fail again! GPU kernel panics
Louis Rossmann
338K views • 8 years ago
12:44Genius Bar caught ripping customer off ON CAMERA by CBC News
Louis Rossmann
9.2M views • 8 years ago
11:03We need to talk about failing keyboards on these new Macbooks.
Louis Rossmann
614K views • 8 years ago
33:32Apple's soldered-in SSDs are engineered in the worst way possible
Louis Rossmann
589K views • 3 years ago
15:05How most 16" Macbook Pros often kill themselves & why they're unfixable
Louis Rossmann
1.6M views • 4 years ago
29:57Microsoft Surface laptop: unrepairable junk
Louis Rossmann
395K views • 9 years ago
16:22iPhone 12 Anti Repair Design - Teardown and Repair Assessment
Hugh Jeffreys
11.6M views • 6 years ago
4:46Louis opens new Macbook Air, immediately loses mind.
Louis Rossmann
3.2M views • 7 years ago
18:43Reballing flip chip GPUs is BULLSHIT - the truth about dead laptop GPUs & repairing them.
Louis Rossmann
773K views • 12 years ago
18:12Apple under fire for allegations of controversial business practices
CBC News: The National
3.3M views • 8 years ago
7:49Apple REFUSED to Fix our iMac Pro
Linus Tech Tips
11.5M views • 8 years ago
5:18Lobbyists imply right to repair helps domestic abusers, pushes racism and redlining!
Louis Rossmann
94K views • 6 years ago
3 comments from Hacker News
I love Louis Rossman's video about why he does not use Apple products. Near the beginning, he talks about how he worked in a recording studio, and people would bring in background music they wanted to sing along with on MP3 players, and he was used to just copying files off. Which worked just fine until he encountered his first iPod: ▶ this video
For me, 1. Getting packages with apt on ubuntu without installing homebrew. It's vastly simpler and natively supported by ubuntu. I can also update my entire system with sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade. 2. Native docker support. 3. On mac, I always ask the question whether something is ctrl-c or cmd-c, say. On linux it's always ctrl. 4. I don't have to login to the apple store to get the software I need. 5. Linux has always been command-line first. On mac it's always been GUI first. 6. Macbooks are terribly built, and fail for a number of reasons. [1] 7. The Apple brand, while it used to be one of homebrew is now akin to one of fashion. It's kind of like seeing all the kids walk around with their "Hollister" t-shirts on. I could go on I suppose but those are the meat of the issues. 1: Louis Rossmann's macbook repair channel. ▶ this video
Note how Apple hosts neither of those manuals? Apple doesn't care if their products are user serviceable at all, and has repeatedly shown malice towards the repair industry or long lived products at all. Louis Rossmann talking about how Apple devices are designed to fail: ▶ this video Also, my iPad 2 broke down after a year and a half. Not buying Apple again!