Talk:Apple's anti-repair and anti-refurbishment practices

Building this article up

Our article on Apple is EXTREMELY disorganized, so this is part of a cleanup effort to reorganize the page by grouping incidents together since a lot of them are under the same banner as contributing to e-waste. I have already taken a few notes of what to add here from the existing article, but I will be adding extra information to here as well. Do at least try to give this the same amount of respect that a theme article gets, since this feels like it could be in the same boat. JamesTDG (talk) 14:34, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

I wonder whether this might be better reframed - as the practices that lead to e-waste are often anti-consumer, we should be framing them from an anti-consumer perspective rather than an environmental one. maybe 'Apple's anti-repair and anti-refurbishment practices', or something similar? Keith (talk) 15:58, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

Its focus from the start has been from a consumer perspective, but it was just difficult coming up with a good name for the article lol JamesTDG (talk) 08:32, 12 September 2025 (UTC)

Question

I am unable to see how "Blocking 3rd-party apps" falls under anti-repair and anti-refurbishment (if we are talking about general Jailbreaking/Cydia or alternative app stores). I feel like it should stay on the main Apple article. Mr Pollo (talk) 16:25, 12 September 2025 (UTC)

Agree. The original title of this page was 'apple's e-waste [something]', but I don't think it would have fit there either. Keith (talk) 16:27, 12 September 2025 (UTC)

Well, 3rd-party apps include diagnostic tools as well... JamesTDG (talk) 16:29, 12 September 2025 (UTC)

To my knowledge, repair shops use external devices to diagnose iPhones, like here. Correct me if i'm wrong though, as I really know of that one example. Mr Pollo (talk) 16:32, 12 September 2025 (UTC)