Nothing Surprises Me - This Ones For The Anti Repairers

Believing people shouldn't be able to able to repair their own things is like believing the earth is flat. It's idiotic.
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[@pearelectronics3083]

The anti repair argument is pure insanity there would be no safety risk if the bloody manufacturer made it easy to remove the battery or any other component that can cause risk

[@nathansstuff1547]

​@@ellisgarbutt1925 Tell that to the Samsung XCover series of phones. IP68 resistant, and all with a removable battery and headphone jack. It's a bullshit excuse.

[@Numquamnonparatus320]

Contrarians always find some mental gymnastics to justify the most ridiculous things

[@pearelectronics3083]

@@nathansstuff1547 exactly

[@CommodoreFan64]

@@nathansstuff1547 this 100%, and I have an Alcatel Glimpse on Android 10 GO as my backup/hiking phone, which has a removable back/battery, a headphone jack and even claims it's water resistant

[@stusue9733]

@@ellisgarbutt1925 Apart from what others have said about you being wrong. I wonder just how this idea ever gets repeated. Just how would gluing the battery help make the phone waterproof? Its BS on the face of it. Now if they "glued it in" by pouring epoxy all over it.... maybe, but some double sided tape? really??

[@lazerblazer528]

We need more companies like framework making repairable devices

[@mucookul]

Agreed

[@sshrivaas]

But not charging a bomb for it.

[@NoobsDeSroobs]

Fairphone has been great so far.

[@sshrivaas]

@@NoobsDeSroobs there’s no question about that. But the phones just cost too much under the guise of repairability

[@kyanhluong]

This is so bad, wish everyone ability to afford framework part

[@walpoleandworcester]

Nice seeing you as a young lad! Thanks for all your advocacy around these right to repair issues.

[@CelesteWuff]

timestamp?

[@ColonelPenguin]

@@CelesteWuff 6:19

[@CelesteWuff]

@@ColonelPenguin W mans thank you

[@Legofan2676]

Bruh "just because someone can steal my keys and make a copy therefore nobody should be allowed to cut keys, so should i just demolish my whole house?" 💀

[@michaelcorcoran8768]

Yeah now we need proprietary house keys with DRM that only works with specific keychains!

[@Kalvinjj]

@@michaelcorcoran8768 smart locks ain't far from that. ...until you find the stupidly ridiculous vulnerability on them that makes you open up the fancy dumb lock with a cut piece of a Red Bull can or so (see Lock Picking Lawyer).

[@sihamhamda47]

​@@michaelcorcoran8768 and you need to subscribe for 10 dollar/month to keep your key! If you cancel your subscription, you can't enter your house

[@alieffauzanrizky7202]

​@@sihamhamda47This part got me 😂

[@SaHaRaSquad]

@@sihamhamda47 ...and hope their servers never fail. Once an entire company stood still for hours because the smart lock manufacturer's servers were down and nobody could enter the building lol.

[@notbuffy]

I'm also an electronic repair guy and anti repair sucks because repairing is the way we make money and I truly want to help the environment

[@trainyourbrain4420]

We enjoy repairing stuff ss well!*

[@swd6430]

Sucks? You can be thankfull for it, you have a job. If it wasnt there i could replace battery or screen myself if it was meant to be changed.

[@highlow8683]

@@swd6430 you're not the only person in the world. you forgot the general population don't know how to repair their own phones.

[@notbuffy]

@@swd6430 true

[@tydshiin5783]

​@@swd6430you're overestimating the ability of some folks to even think about just disassembling something

[@BrianGlaze]

There is no logical reasoning to oppose right to repair. Thanks for calling this out.

[@tydshiin5783]

There's only logic to the manufacturer as that means folks will keep their phones longer and not buy another one

[@xmlthegreat]

You can't argue logic with apple sheep, since they didn't logic themselves into that position in the first place. (Replace apple sheep with other nicknames for blind fanboyism of other brands)

[@bakaneko6639]

There is one: money

[@ErevanDB]

​@Akshay Anand maybe theme it around a dystopia like brave new world or 1984.

[@ngpaul9253]

The world needs more people like you to advocate for us (helpless consumers). Thank you!

[@KoopaMedia64]

You can help by voting with your wallet, never again buy another new Apple or Samsung other anti-repair company's products or services.

[@FoxBlocksHere]

Seeing that video of you doing repairs as a child made me smile! It's nice to see that you've always had an interest in repairing, even at that young of an age!

[@NaraSherko]

MAKE A TPOT 5 MINECRAFT VIDEO

[@abart4447]

I hope EU will do something, just like with the USB-C

[@abart4447]

Yep, it will just take some time

[@timetriad6199]

You hit the nail on the head…. Anti-repair is driven by greed and corruption.

[@shapelessed]

Funny... They make an argument for anti-repair because someone could have fixed your phone with stolen parts... Well, maybe if the manufacturer sold their replacement parts for what they were actually worth it wouldn't be profitable to "sell stolen parts". It just feels like the AirPods solution to a problem of a headphone jack removed 10 minutes prior... A pricy solution to a stupid issue...

[@spencerparkes7328]

You hit the nail on the head at every point you brought up. Thank you

[@Benri05]

I still have my cheap tablet for movies, been replacing the battery everytime it needs replacing. Now I modded it with two massive batteries and now last double than stock lol.

[@papaasante4994]

Hey Apple, we know you are bullshitting us.

[@crazywarp36]

xd so true

[@ickipoo]

The problem is that there are billions of people who don't know or don't care...

[@MikeCobweb]

and some of their users are buying into that too unfortunately.

[@stevenrisnyovszky1120]

They don’t want to care most certainly. My opinion is, that u should be able to repair your iPhone whenever u want and someone big needs to force APPLE Bullshitting Inc. to such a thing! ! !

[@HalfLife3onSteamPLZ]

​@@stevenrisnyovszky1120 fear and armed violence can change apple, as well as youtube and other corporate 'tards.

[@Rukyr99]

We need more people with your mindset in important places. You're a standup kind of guy. Wish you all the best and hope that someday the right to repair will be implemented in all legislation. Thanks for all your effort.

[@tomorio87]

Been with you 100% since day one Hugh. I've been into phone customisation since the Galaxy s4 and iPhone 4s. Making something your own once you've bought it is done EVERYWHERE. You don't buy a house and leave it exactly as it is, no, you add to it, to make it feel better for you or fit a certain aesthetic you have in mind. Greed is the only thing these manufacturers know anymore, and that passes down to customers as they become so used to just buying another product once even the smallest thing happens to their current device. No wonder the planet is just a huge landfill now, overflowing with eWaste. If money can be made, the world will always suffer.

[@kayits2893]

Just love your videos. There are just few people like you in the world

[@itsnotme07]

Great video Hugh! Loved the flashback to the masonry repair expert. LOL

[@rayoflight62]

Thank you Mr. Jeffreys for your advocacy against anti-repair...

[@CyborgKuroChan335]

I'm hoping Louis Rossmann's video on the Macbooks Sleep Sensor finally opens the eyes of people who are against right to repair on why it's needs to be a thing

[@Mohammed-vs4fm]

I could have not put it in any better words. Absolutely agree we should run some petition

[@MegaTechpc]

I would personally NEVER attempt to repair a phone myself as I don’t have the technical know-how nor the inclination (I usually regard a broken device as a good excuse to get that shiny new device I’ve been wanting) but there is simply ZERO justification for these companies to disallow third-party repair of their products and especially to actively design them in such a way as to make proper repairs impossible (i.e. Apple’s draconian tactic of labeling parts as “not genuine”, even though they are, just because they were replaced without Apple’s blessing). These tactics are blatantly anti-consumer and are a naked attempt by the manufacturers to force people to buy new devices when they really should not need to. When you buy any product you should OWN said product and be allowed to do whatever you want with it, period. Especially with how ridiculously priced these new devices already are these days.

[@octosquatch.]

It's so strange when people internalize corporate gaslighting.

[@ekoprasetiyo]

Yea. Remove charger in the name of environmental claim but "force" user to toss the iphone to landfill if its broken. Will happen in 3 to 5 years from now

[@planetphatness]

It's because they can sell you the charger separately in an extra box using up more cardboard and plastic because environment or something.

[@ekoprasetiyo]

@@planetphatness and also they can sell more of phones + separate charger when the old one "unrepairable(by design)" to please the so called 'greedy' investor/

[@amominah]

Thank you for educating us and the socity. Amazing viedo.

[@brettjames5061]

i feel that most people defending anti-repair/user unfriendly phone design are apple fans that dont realise that apple can be wrong, and/or they dont want to admit that apple did something wrong because of buyers remorse/guilt. When i was a teenager, I would defend nintendo relentlessly. but when i got older i realised that i can like something while still seeing its flaws. I still like nintendo, and play there games regularly, but at the end of the day, I know nintendos in the wrong when they shut down emulation, or fan games, and i wont defend them doing it, if anything I agree with the people calling nintendo out on it.

[@i.t21b_alphonso_luis_vallejo]

Karma is asshole, if they have no money they realize it as well

[@jadepaulxxx]

I absolutely love this video, I'm a smartphone technician and I know how difficult apple has made repairs. It's exasperating!

[@thelightbrigadef4172]

Ain't no surprise cause, financial issues to kept the new project requires a lot of money for doing it every 1 year cause user can use almost 3 years before any sign of worn out part repair begin to take effects.

[@dadat30]

Really appreciate your videos. Especially ones like this one with a lot of info. Nice throwing in the baby Hugh vid. :D

[@stephaniethebatter7975]

Preventing third-party repair may be even MORE dangerous than allowing it. My current daily driver, an MSI GF63 8RC, is four years old, give or take. While not everything inside is user-replaceable, such as the CPU and GPU being soldered to the motherboard, it's really easy to clean and all the other major components can be upgraded or replaced. That includes the battery. Now, as soon as I mentioned the battery, you probably know where I'm going with this. Well, a year and a half ago, I noticed that my laptop's chassis was warped a bit towards the front and my space bar and touchpad were becoming increasingly unresponsive. I looked up a disassembly video on my laptop's model and saw that the battery was towards the front of the laptop - the same place where I was having problems. So I carefully opened up my laptop, following the disassembly video and was met with a nasty spicy pillow. I was able to get rid of it and order in a new battery which I was able to use instead without any complications. Now, imagine if I had to go to, say MSI to get that battery replaced for whatever reason. I would have to either take my laptop to MSI myself or mail it to them. Would it even survive the trip? Not helping things was that that battery had been swollen like that for quite some time. Who knew how much longer that battery had left before exploding? And I'm pretty sure spicy pillows and aeroplanes don't mix. Replacing the battery myself was the safest route to take, as it was the quickest and negated the dangers of transporting the device to the people who supposedly had to be the ones to fix it, be it poor handling of the device or taking it many, many metres into the sky.

[@ErevanDB]

A perfect response or anti-battery repair fanboys

[@stephaniethebatter7975]

@@ErevanDB (cough) Future Motion (cough)

[@damichl9684]

💯 Thank you for this great Video!!!!

[@ogdon2009]

Great points, and more importantly, it’s the right thing to do. Business models based on undermining consumers are not the answer. These companies need to embrace and come up with more sustainable business practices and product development processes, including spare parts and their distribution in every region they commercialize them. Thanks for this video!

[@hamada3ido125]

Young Hugh sure was a Cute repairman, and he grew up to be this amazing youtube.

[@nomebear]

Every week, someone drops an Apple phone or five (5) at my home so that I can repair them. Why? They can't get any of the local shops 0:05 to repair them. I seldom see Android devices because they're easily repaired by the local shops. If I sound like a crotchety old man, it's because I am. I'd rather goof off in my old age as a retired technician than mess with devices that are intentionally designed to be difficult, if not impossible, to repair.

[@hamada3ido125]

@@nomebear The anti repair argument is pure insanity there would be no safety risk if the bloody manufacturer made it easy to remove the battery or any other component that can cause risk

[@kingjulien9525]

Watching you, Louis R., Zack (JerryRigEverything) made me enjoy more DIY. Keep up the good work.

[@NenadTrajkovic]

Your every word is golden on this matter

[@perdiddlepanskew8018]

It’s so cute that as just a wee boy you were already so methodical!

[@carsoncomrie1070]

Thank you for making this video me and my friend were literally arguing about this a few days ago and he said that it was safety. I’m totally showing this video to him

[@smartalservice]

All very well said. Going deep on this. Thanks

[@the_grand_tourer]

Excellent arguments mate ... I hope one day you are used as expert witness on governmental enquiry into corporate gerrymandering of sales and collateral e-waste.

[@MrTimdtoolman1]

I totally agree with you Hugh. People should have the right to repair their own device if the choose to

[@SlartiMarvinbartfast]

Exactly. I wonder, do anti-repair idiots think that hammers should be banned? I mean, you could hit your thumb! How about electric drills? One slip and you have a nasty cut or a hole in your hand. As for saws, particularly electric tools with cutting discs, one slip and you lose a finger or a hand. Ultimately this is all about control and money - the big companies don't care about the environment, they just want to milk the consumer as much as possible. Governments could do a lot more to help the right to repair issue if only many weren't partly or wholly corrupt and in the back pockets of large corporations.

[@420SmokezzYT]

I do hope one day the FTC can file a huge lawsuit against the tech industry for even allowing this shady practice to take place

[@Mernom]

It's up to local governments to make laws to enforce this paradigm. They were roadblocked for a while now, but rtr is finally starting to win.

[@cliffcorson4000]

I work as a service tech/OTP for a restaurant group I constantly hear from my stores "why not just get new equipment instead of repairing this OLD stuff" I've explained multiple times how these items are designed to ve repaired and how repair parts are far less expensive. Right now so many people only see replacing with new as the right way of doing things instead of fixing items

[@ickipoo]

They just don't want to have to deal with the disgusting grime left by their inadequate cleaning... much easier if you just replace the machine, right?

[@alejandroelcid]

I once knew a guy in university, he was an army veteran. He used to tell us how many Apple computers and products were constantly lying around, in the field mind you, because they weren't allowed to fix them. Apple needed to send someone to "repair" the devices, which took a long time, and it was easier to use older, non-Apple, devices that they could still use and repair.

[@MishMash22]

Fantastic points. 👏👏👏

[@mikeee63]

Spot on!! Thank you!!

[@jeepers18304]

That's y i love watching your contents u are one of the many technician i see doing videos like this speaking about the rights to repair its unfair to the owner to spend so much money on a device and can't repair it if its damaged it's like u don't have full ownership over your device

[@tyzone]

The fact that this video is needed is pure insanity

[@joserosado8633]

Thanks for very important message about repair a rate to repair your own phone. That’s why I stop fixing my phone. I ran into too many issues with Apple and other Samsung products.

[@GGdevelopment]

Well spoken. Well said. Well done. 👏

[@jozsefizsak]

Very good. You're a voice of sanity.

[@Headroom23]

@Hugh Jefferys : Manufactures are so stupid. They could make money by selling the parts needed for repair. Also, I agree with you 1000%. If someone wishes to repair their devices themselves, why shouldn't they? I would like to add that I enjoy your channel. You know your way around devices and I pick up some great tips on repair. Thank you for a great channel

[@th1nhhdk]

Nah, they make more money selling new 1300$ phones

[@iamlupaz9528]

Saved and fixed up 4 Macbooks so far, thank god Find My was turned off on all of them! I repairing tech so that will always be my go to

[@ranjnijan3446]

I got a big solution. JUST Don’t drop your phones = no damage = no need to repair. Yes i know guys i am a genius, you’re welcome now pay me instead. Cheers.

[@mArvAlcao71]

After some years, even if you never drop your phone you still gonna replace the battery.

[@ranjnijan3446]

@@mArvAlcao71 I was just joking. :)

[@marcezs08]

Even if I'm going to go with the first party option for repair, I hate the idea of there being a monopoly for repair too, as it means the monopoly owner can charge an egregious price to force you to just buy new stuff

[@queenmarynovelwriter5397]

I enjoy these videos ,even though I don't know one end of a screw driver from the other, even I can learn something.

[@CBGX]

This video sums it all up. Thank you

[@RadioFreeRich]

Well said, Hugh!

[@rogerwprice]

Well said - thanks for all you do.

[@camboi6103]

But what if you damage the battery while trying to take it out cause the manufacturer used the strongest glue they had Manufacturers claim they care about the environment while making tech more disposable and harder to fix

[@prashantsinghmehta]

Changed the style of content but still my favourite KZbin content creater

[@afxgiu]

Baby Hugh was absolutely too adorable😭❤

[@alanjones2207]

Always love your videos. I would never attempt a repair my self . But love to watch you repair them . Keep up the good work.😊

[@lifeon3753]

Imagine if car manufacturers did the same thing and only allowed you to use their workshops to service your car and you could only use genuine parts, not aftermarket, otherwise your airbags won't work or your abs brakes won't function correctly. There would be an absolute uproar!

[@deimantas2754]

some already do that

[@JackS425]

If they wanted to prevent theft of stolen phone parts they could blacklist the serials of the parts of the stolen phone instead of whitelisting factory parts with the manufactures blessing

[@DJdoppIer]

Well said my dude. Keep fighting the good fight.

[@drjunaidjabbarkhan]

Good concept mate... Appreciated... got yourself a subscriber (Y)

[@Sub0ptimal3163]

We need more of little Hugh

[@calebsalyards8076]

There's also the interests of the people living near electronics landfills outside of the US. If I have to dispose of a 'useless' phone it likely ends up contributing to a toxicity problem for other people.

[@mikiswordbreaker4805]

Few days ago I'm replacing my Xr battery myself with 3rd party one that got extra capacity after some thought about this kinda thing..yeah the unknown part warning shows up after that..but nah..my Xr right now works flawlessly and the battery last much longer.. quite happy and satisfied for what I'm done.. I've own the device so i should be able to do what i want..

[@paratek_io]

Theft wise, block parts marked as stolen. Re-sale wise, provide a tool to scan the phone for 3rd part parts on-demand. It's such an easy problem if it wasn't about making the consumer buy new products.

[@joshuainluminator]

Funny how superficial justifications seemingly convince people. Thank you for taking the time to cut through the BS and sharing how ridiculous anti-repair measures are.

[@kingvinoda3896]

This video should be a presentation to congress

[@alvinmarcos7406]

Great point!

[@Phone-Center]

Oh and about battery danger: It is dangerous, to have an expanded battery glued in a sealed glass sandwich. That is a fire hazard. Not removing it...

[@vasudevmenon2496]

The problem faced outside USA is the part availability such as battery which are hard to get once they are EOL by manufacturers and ifixit or others don't ship to all locations over the world

[@kanp5114]

Good work mate, same thoughts. Be safe 🙏

[@XLessThanZ]

👍🏽 We're getting there...slowly, but surely.

[@freemansfreedom8595]

4:30 To which I go a step further: If that was the issue, let your users go to your website, and put a claim to disable that phone's parts when it is actually needed by showing proof of purchase. Then push an update to all your models with the blacklist so those parts stop working for repairs. They sure could considering they have no qualms of sending telemetry back, so a few kb of data for a blacklist should not be a big deal. You achieve the same, without killing reparability. But that ain't the goal, as we all know by now.

[@sadpill4616]

I loved the memory scene

[@MakotoIchinose]

I've personally encountered those kind of people in the circle I'm in, and as a modder and tinkerer, it's hard to hold my anger against them

[@berberger4814]

Someone in Louis community said, serilaized parts could be blocked from working only when the device is reported stolen Not by default (and its even still partially working as you said)

[@matthewgill8586]

I agree with you If we are able to repair sommthing our selves we should beallowed to do so

[@anthonyenglish5276]

In a time of diminishing natural resources it seems stupid to disallow anyone to access repair rather than new purchase; but then Corporate execs only concern is their annual bonus

[@TonyVeart]

Good video. You talk alot of sense Hugh.

[@PS3PCDJ]

All those anti-repair people should be publicly shamed.

[@iivnn1945]

yes

[@winnersnneli3366]

Thanks for your unadulterated truth🙌

[@Ta_nuz]

Carry on mate! One hundred percent agreed.

[@RBVJnt]

when i opened my first phone being 10yo, i punctured the battery and even with that basic knowledge i could immediately put it on a closed glass bottle until it stopped smoking, i say this to prove anything needs basic prevention to avoid injury and phones should be repairable

[@DoubleD-kg1xh]

Young Hugh with some tuckpointing action!!

[@dylanbezuidenhout8725]

Agree 1Billion percent👏🏼🙏🏽

[@myran5317]

Well said! 👍

[@LawAndBedlum]

4:48 lmao 😂 I am here for Hacker Hugh 😊

[@t3rm01]

Very well said

[@Vtrontv]

Broken my LG phone's display, Went to nearby mobile spares shop, bought new digitizer, came home and installed myself. Works just like new! Even added some thermal paste to SD855 SOC for faster heat dissipation and works brilliant now! Gonna keep this mobile until it battery dies!

[@heickelrrx]

Having notice that part is not replaced by first party repair is fine and good, as long as no functionality got disabled Even if it end up reading the wrong reading due to knockoff part And the only feature that have right to get disabled is TouchID/FaceID, the rest, no no such thing are allowed,

[@lagautmd]

Also, cars are being set up with systems that require repair at the dealership and nowhere else. The tools for repair are simply not sold to anyone but dealers.

[@quirkleehammett]

Great stuff

[@damianosavraammisaelidis9727]

Interesting line of thoughts. I'm glad that someone does see things from different angles and dare I say overanalyzing? Some might say that overanalyzing isn't a good thing but I beg to differ. Keep it up mate. Cheers from what was once the home of Blackberries.

[@MI7DJT]

Planned obsolescence describes the practice of designing products to break quickly or become obsolete in the short to mid-term. The general idea behind this is to encourage sales of new products and upgrades, a practice that has been banned in some countries. Apple were banned in France for this practice.

[@RikyyThePootisSlayer]

I repair phones for a living. Apart from the batteries that might be fluffly pillows when they come, and even then it's rare, I've bent most of them to pry them out. Nothing happens. Later pull tabs work properly, and the iphone, albeit full of little screws hidden to make you rip flex cables when you forget them, is pretty straightforward if you are organized. Battery replacement means heat the screen a bit, pry it open, take a couple shields off (10ish screws in total) and remove 4 flex cables (screen, touch and upper speaker come together) including the one for the battery. Pull the tabs, that's it (later models are a bit cramped so you might need to take the taptic off). There's no reason to lock them for security. If you know what you are doing, which you can learn under a week, it's a 20min job tops, without any specialized Apple equipment. If you are talking camera's or the main board, yeah it's going to take you 1hr+ because of the absurd amount of screws but you can do it.

[@moe_1886]

100% agree Hugh! And for those arguing about 'safety' concerns... just be at peace in your bubble and stop using the internets! 🤣