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Apple's iPad parts pricing demonstrates malicious compliance

Apple's iPad parts pricing demonstrates malicious compliance

Jason Weisberger
Aug 01, 2025
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Ordered to make parts available and to allow consumers to fix their own devices, Apple does not play nice.

404media points out that Apple is not making repairs readily available, but rather so cost-prohibitive that one may as well buy an entirely new device. Independent parts vendors have prices 1/10th of what Apple asks.

Clark points out that a new c…

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