WHY DID APPLE DO THIS?? 

Gotta love them. Took my girlfriend's iPad to an apple store for a repair quote for a cracked screen (claiming it on travel insurance, hence why I went directly to apple). Straight up "We don't repair devices - we just replace them". It's just sad.

can't wait until they are telling politicians that people replacing the power cables is incredibly dangerous and that only apple should do it.

looks like water damage on your keyboard broke the power cable. We will have to replace the whole logic board.

This isn't even a joke, this literally CAN happen. Absolute stupidity.

Environmentally friendly btw

Bruh LMAOOO

this needs more likes

War changes a man.

and desktop magsafe which doesn’t work

Magsafe is old tech. Introducing: The Dangerlock™

😂

its at least the second time he has used it, i think both for apple things

Specific quote is at 19:35, larger paragraph begins 19:12

Imagine what it must feel like to provide negative value to society and human progress.

@@beewyka819if you don't want to give yourself depression, I suggest not doing that calculation too precisely

"looks like you attempted to USE the device without further payment, we will sue you now"

​​@@afrog2666 that's pretty literally what Adobe did with encore. They said very explicitly they would sue anyone who used it they lost the license, even though I bought the damn thing myself. That was before everything Adobe was on a subscription model. I actually purchased it. It should be mine forever. But because they're idiot enough to lose the damn license, they got to punish their users.

When someone is 100% right and goes off like this, all you can do is sit back and vibe

OMG you express yourself like a linus' s NutHugger

Luke cant bash apple. Hes not linus level yet.

As I said to a friend... Angry Linus is funny Linus

@@AriannaEuryaleMusic The fuck's a NutHugger?

Yeah. Except try "they can be repaired, we just prefer to sell you new ones cause that's more profitable"

Yup... and have you pay an extra premium for the replacement! Recently I had a user with an iPhone 12 that had the glass broken on the back, a six month old phone that for the rest still looked like new, not a scratch on the front or sides. Apple: we can't repair that! We'll can only swap the device... cost? 70 bucks under retail price! So a perfectly working only cosmetically damaged iPhone is only worth 70 bucks? FU Apple... FU.

I want to believe that their employees who are testing the product also annoyed by the cable design and file the complain, but soon after they got fired.

Totally sympathize with the expressed frustration... Except in this case, you didn't quite get it right. Replacing products supposedly don't impact the environment because you are effectively recycling the material through apple, which they reuse when making new products. But you may have an interesting point posing whether modularity also means more waste... I'm not sure if it has to, but I can see why it would

The products they replace will end up as refurbished parts in store. There's too much money on the table for Apple to do the right thing here, but on the bright side these products do get repaired and put back into circulation.

Gotta watch the red camera reviews. I go back and watch them occasionally.

Watch his reaction to Nvidia going after Hardware Unboxed....

The Teamviewer fiasco as well

Linus' reaction to Nvidia v Hardware Unboxed tops this by a mile. I can say with a degree of certainty that is the moment he's lost his cool the most, ever.

You haven't seen the paint rant yet!

Apple doesn't want to talk to a scientist apparently

I saw on Twitter literally exactly what you're describing from a leaker

If it's spring-loaded tension, they likely have a magnetic attachment point that they can rotate the spring and reduce tension on it for easy removal (at least that's how i'd try to set it up).

Pretty ridiculous amount of overengineering just to make it really hard to change a bloody power cable of all things

@@gunswinger3110 you would honestly be surprised in how much engineering most things have been through, with most of the engineering solely for idiot proofing or reducing ways something can hurt someone in the most basic of use cases. Then there's Apple, who intentionally engineers stuff to intentionally make life difficult for everyone else.

And knowing Apple their cables will disintegrate in a couple of months

Nahh they told them "make this as unrepairable as possible"

They got the "different" part right. "Think", on the other hand....

Probably takes 10 engineers to change a light bulb!

@@silverhawkroman Yea. Nine of them in a fight and the tenth on the phone to the janitor.

n fired the guy who pointed out: "ermmm guys, this is kinda dumb..."

Maybe they should just focus on making a good product instead of trying to be proprietary. Apple already stands out amongst the industry. This is putting brand image above customer satisfaction.

Perhaps regular c13 genuinely wouldn't work

@@charlesturner897 There's objectively ZERO reason why that wouldn't work in this situation.

@@charlesturner897 as a EE, I can say: you could literally pound three nails through the appropriate parts of the mainboard, and it would work fine. Apple does not have special electrons that will only flow through their special branded connections.

This is the most believable theory I have heard. Vinicio, can you link to a source of the standards? I know of NEMA & IEC plug standards, but not anything about them being mandatory for computer displays. The Studio display is arguably more than just a display, with it’s A13 chip, onboard storage, speakers, and camera with center stage software.

Yea even my Old crt has a removable power cable while the VGA is fixed. This is crazy.

laptop charger ac/dc converters only has removable cable on single side (the one going into the wall), making damage to charging port needing a whole block rebuy

Same for me, a CRT TV from the 70's and a CRT monitor from the late 90's, both hard-wired for power draw!

Some LCD Monitors with proprietory display cables* are hard wired in. *I'm specifically referencing a Sony LCD display I once purchased 2nd hand (bad decision) which had a permenantly attached display cable and came with a PS/2 keyboard, at the time I didn't know what DVI was or DisplayPort but I know for sure that it was not a DisplayPort cable so it could've just been DVI but idk since I no longer have the display and wasn't even able to use the monitor since I had no computer that had DVI support so I got rid of it... I also no longer have the PS/2 keyboard anymore and this was all ~5-8 years ago now

This says it only has 2 replies, wth

Repairs!? From a company who wouldn't fix an iMac monitor for Linus before this?

And the power cable is obviously part of the hardware security implementation of the monitor, so you can't possibly have it replaced by anyone else than Apple as the new cable must be synced to the integrated webcam that can't be turned off.

"repairs"

Back when I used a Macbook Pro, I think I went through three power cables cause that shitty rubber kept failing after a couple years.

@@TheKrstff Because apple is a design first engineering second company. They KNOW the charging cables of their phones and laptops are bad, but because they feel it looks better than a well engineered cable they kept it. Sure you could basically walk into an apple store and get a replacement for free, under warranty or not, but most people don't know that. So they buy another one. hmm.....

crApple IS a dongle..

Does your dongle dangle at an angle?

​@@_AcatHat does my dongle look weird

No they didn't. The monitor is the dongle. The most expensive dongle. Aye got'em.

verge?

"Every jigsaw puzzle piece fits with enough force"

Like my chemistry teacher who said everything is edible at least once

@@blackcat-mp7kh if you check at 9:40 they say the person who tweeted the removable cable was from Verge

Looks like the macrumors posts was removable too

it occured to me why this might have happened, they designed a custom mains plug, couldn't get it qualified as "safe" e.g. England has CE marking, what does North American use? (C13 is a standard that's qualified already, so it's easy, so everyone uses it) so put a circlip or screw or whatever on it and made it "non-removable" therefore not needing qualification

america has "UL" all over anything electrical

Isn't the CE marking kind of a joke being used to mean "Chinese Electronics"?

@@drozcompany4132 There are 2 CE marks, one means Certificate of European Conformity, and that is one where each letter can have a circle imposed over it that does not overlap with the other, the then there's the fake CE that has overlapping circles that basically means "China Export", both are illegal if used on products that are not certified, but most compliant products get it right and use the 1st one. So if you see the incorrect one, then avoid that product like the plague.

@@elektrokinesis4150 CE as China export is just a myth. the overlapping cirles were mostly used on products that were correctly reported to the authorities.

Don't give them idea. They already did that with the iPhone. Soon they'll keep the price the same but shipping the monitor without a cable.

Good question, I guess a limited cycle powering on and off like: "you broke our policy by restarting your monitor more that 10 times in the last 12 months, your warranty repair considering "100 dead pixels" is denied but LUCKY YOU we just have a brand new monitor on our inventory, it also comes with a discount, from $2999 now to $2899" lol

I bet their excuse is that the iec cords are ugly.

@@markwong6548 Louis Rossmann would like to have a word with Apple. The Apple company is so anti consumer and anti environment (making parts hard to replace), it isn't even funny anymore.

you mean like the one that was used for the old imac?

I’m always here for angry Linus rants

I don't think I've ever seen linus go off like that before. I feel like his anger is justified but go dayum the man got balls to rant like he did. I've seen cancel culture attack people for less.

@@MrVkull cancel culture is something people can easily ignore 99% of the time

Apple, with stacks of dollar bills between their head: can't hear you bud.

Apple: Don't worry guys, I got you. We came up with a few just the other day. Linus will be fuming.

It's not a fixed cable, they're just lying.

1599$

You don't throw the monitor away. You simply drive or ship it to your nearest Apple store. Leave it there for a week. Continue working on your computer with no monitor somehow. Then drive or ship it back.

@@iAmTheSquidThing well let’s see how many ppl will do that after the warranty is gone and the repair alone costs 500$ and on that “drive it to the nearest Apple Store”… not everyone is living in a city where Apple Stores are common you’ll either have to pay a lot for shipping or drive couple of hundred kilometers to get to a store hence ‘very environmentally friendly’ solution. Let’s be honest the choice to not make the cable removable is hundred percent a economical/financial choice (I would even go that far to say it was only a evil choice!) because if the cable breaks the only ppl who profit from it is Apple. Their “green washing” and “environmentally conscious” company image they tried to build starting with the IPhone 12 goes under for making a stupid cable choice😉. At the end of the days they are just trying to work for their investors and profit margins and not really for their customers. Everyone who is defending them are just fanboys and don’t want to see the reality. I myself use a IPhone 11 Pro and IPad Pro but I’m still not happy with some choices they make.

@@iAmTheSquidThing man forgot to include the repair bill

@@fuyouto 1899$ with the fancy glass texture 💀

Why? You choose to buy it.

It's made to seem non removeble but technically is this is so if the cable breaks you will have to pay them a ridiculous amount of money to get it fixed rather then buying a new cable

@@arandomhumanbeing2464 correction, I don't lol.

@@arandomhumanbeing2464 Grow up and realize that's not an excuse.

@@derekschommer1465 great. So why should Apple face legal repercussions when you were not even affected

Maybe if they are different revisions or something. But the odds are they will work.

But they do? There are standards for this type of thing

@@zat-svi-ua no, they won't. Each cable will be serial-number matched to the monitor it was originally installed to. To prevent "unreliable third-party" power cables from being used.

@@jimstanley_49 that's exactly what apple will do in the future. But as long as there are three contacts - they can (probably) be interchanged, since cables with ground and live swapped can create an electrocution risk. Maybe that's why apple doesn't want you to touch the cable? Because they fucked up and made different revisions of the board, and now you can make the monitor unsafe by changing the cable? I don't fucking understand these decisions at this point.

@@zat-svi-ua I was being excessively cynical. So many things (home button, battery, etc.) can't be replaced on an iPhone, for instance, because the parts are locked to eachother. It would not surprise me to find they did the same thing to your power cord.

Are you serious..... Is it actually on the underside?

@@Skelterbane69 Look it up, worst design ever

@@Skelterbane69 yes, yes it is. There's two sane ways to do a wireless mouse: 1) with replaceable batteries, meaning you will have to pause using it while "recharging", aka swapping tge batteries, but you'll never have to use it with a wire, or 2) with integrated battery, meaning it's not fully wireless, you will sometimes have to use it on the wire to charge, but on the plus side you can plug in the wire before a long gaming session and be 100% sure the mouse isn't gonna run out of power in a crucial moment. Apple went the insane way: you have to plug in a wire to charge it, but you can't use it during the charging process, which takes much longer than swapping batteries would

@@LRM12o8 Damn... How can they expect to seell products, when- oh wait, it's apple..... People will buy that stuff just cus of the name, I guess. I've got a wireless corsair mouse and I couldn't be happier with it.

@@Skelterbane69 ok cool. I had a 'wireless' Corsair Dark Core Pro and I hated it. Mainly because it didn't last a day of heavy usage (8hrs home office via Bluetooth plus some more hrs gaming on my private PC via 2.4GHz), so at the end of the day I often had to use it wired to charge (it was a refurbished product to be fair though). Also iCue was the dumbest piece of RGB/profile software I ever had to use. I'm now on a Logitech G604. It has no RGB that's just broken, the profile works, the battery lasts months and I'll never ever have to plug in a wire cause the battery is replaceable.

Only last week I had to endure a meeting that was side tracked for 20 minutes with people ushing how wonderful customer friendly Apple was. Its like been stuck in an elevator with an Evangelical preacher 🤪

I know, unbelievable that a company known for X would do X again. Crazy stuff happens in this world... for example: When i put my hand in water it got all wet and stuff, just like the last time i put my hand in water. o.o

Clampy Regulations? This is US powered, they are able to sell other models in the EU, other power connectors. repair if, animal? all people and animals I know have removed original plugs on cabled, longer wires etc, small boxes or tape to cover it up. Did LG made them? who demanded this?

This is just Apple's "Benchmark Testing" for a future iPhone that won't have a battery and will have a permanently attached cable that needs to remain plugged in to a wall outlet for power. The prototype is called a L.A.N.D.LiNE and it's their response to backlash over them no longer providing a charge cable with previous versions. The base LiNE model also has a rotary dial "simulator" app that cannot be upgraded and is required for placing calls. 😅

@@lucasrem1870 This comment required me to think about what you're saying. Like you're speaking in Yoda speak or something.

@@atomfusion231 Needs ads, is this your job?

Apple is sus 👬🌈👨‍❤️‍👨🏳️‍🌈

Legit, and its worse because most of their user base dont care enough to call it out and just because its Apple. Apple either bring out the best products they have brought out in a long time(The M1 Macbooks and the macbook pros come to mind for this in recent memory), or stuff thats like... eh?

Just because you apologise for being a dickhead, it doesn't make it OK to be a dickhead. Just don't do it. Bosses who get mad at people (unless for extreme things like gross negligence/misconduct) are bad bosses.

Apple is VERY Consistent at being a shitty company, very.

@@The_Situation Okay but Linus clarified he wasn't mad at his employee so he's not a bad boss by your definition.

@@The_Situation it’s infotainment, the moments make for good viewing… Anthony knew how Linus would react by the ridiculousness of the situation and getting it live is better than a fake retake.

Sounds nice, doesn't seem to be true though all the top companies still suck no matter who gets the promotion

I haven't got chills like that since Andrew Garfield popped through the portal 🤣

timestamp for the lazy and short of time?

@@superslash7254 I dunno I guess like 18:30 or so but should really carve out the quick 20 min to watch the whole thing

@@superslash7254 19:15 is the start of the monologue

"Actual human life was invested to make this worse" -Linus

That’s what corporations do

@@turolretar but apple definitely does it the best

"costs less, does more".

Why do they still pay? There's so much fomo around Apple they have a damn phone loaner subscription

I think we're all noticing this, the issue tho is, are enough people caring about it?

LOL 😆 🤣

You know Linus is PISSED off at Apple when he calls Apple a "cappuccino sipping company"

Y’all need to touch grass. No one should be this annoyed by a power cable for a monitor 99% of people wouldn’t buy regardless of the cable being removable or not.

@@SimonLYW you misunderstand. Apple is a trend setter. For better and worse, other companies follow Apple’s lead. Remember the idea of leaving power bricks out of the phone packaging and requiring people to buy the charger separately? Remember how Samsung made fun of it then followed suite? I don’t want other companies following this bad behavior.

@@SimonLYW If you think its okay, that a power cable for a monitor, that costs 1500$, cant be replaced, then you a clearly a part of the problem. In what world is it okay, that a standard powercable, used for ALL monitors around the world, is now something you cant switch or replace? You must be joking.

@@Japsizzle I think it's less than ideal for those that choose to purchase it, but put in context of other things that happen in life, I don't think it's worth getting mad about, especially for those who wouldn't buy the display regardless.

Nope, smart people don't buy Apple products. We study the market to find the best products for us. No Apple, no need to be mad

They still have to in some cases - it's the other end of the cable that matters for power supply, not the one going into the monitor. Though there are cables that can do a magnitude of voltages and frequencies, covering pretty much all of the world's supplies.

This doesn’t surprise me. Apple seem to want to do things differently, even when it doesn’t really make sense.

That was also my idea. This stupid lightning-connectors and its predecessors are low voltage, so anyone can do anything and call it a plug. But mains voltage is a very different beast. The pins of the cable seem to be not as good covered as on any standard plug, so I doubt that this adapter - e.g. as a magnetic variant - would be approved by UL or TÜV. They probably played with those kind of power adapters in house for other stuff like the iCar, but the risk of electrocution with pins exposed that much should not be underestimated.

This rings true to me.

I liked at that Verge guy pic... it seems that the "connector" is barely (if at all) keyed to go in only one way. It's almost symmetrical and should be obvious that connecting Live to monitor Ground pin would be very bad. EDIT: ok they managed to get it out and apparently it's keyed.

Good take. Could it be that a C13 would take too much space and make the monitor thicker?

But this one is a pure shit

Nope they themselves don't even want to fix it hence why the repair costs is so high they want to drive you to just buy their new product.

on brand!

@@HimmelWeint They bill you $$$$ for a full replacement, knock a few bucks off as goodwill, then repair your damaged cable in a sweatshop somewhere so they can sell it one more time (as another full replacement for the next schmuck in line).

@@iaadsi Exactly like you said. They give it a newly generated mac address to hide the fact that it has been used before and sell it as a new replacement to the next customer.

Apple official response-"They are removable! if yours isn't, it's just an early sample but they are removable!" Also apple official website-"They are NOT removable. Don't even try"

Sounds like wine bottles? Or normal cans? Did you ever eat beans?

No analogy needed for this nonsense.

Ever heard of a can opener?

So Juicero?

And the very same customers keep buying the newest anti-consumer products from them. Guess why they keep getting away with it, I don't know why.

then don't hate or like their consumers. they just don't give a fuck, because they know that dumb ppl will still buy bullshit like that...

Happened to my brother. He needed a battery replacement, and because of scratches at the top of the screen Apple told him they needed to repair the entire phone, bumping the repair costs to a ridiculous price. What's sad about this is that the scratches weren't even there when he sent it in, but that's not even the point. Apple refuses to repair/replace only one crucial thing. Thankfully my brother didn't accept this, and many angry emails and phone calls later they did eventually repair (or even replace, not sure) the entire device for just the battery replacement cost. But it's really sad you even have to take it that far. I don't know what people see in Apple but it's definitely not customer support and customer orientation

My previous boss was an Apple lover, and I didn't understand it as we worked in IT. You can absolutely like/love Apples, don't get me wrong, but the software that the entire business ran on was NOT compatible with MacOS and made our jobs obsolete because of how Apple constantly make the computers really difficult to repair or troubleshoot. Every person in the company had a Microsoft License, including OneDrive Cloud storage since Microsoft Office was essential for basic tasks, however when people came to us about backing up items he said they should have to pay themselves to back up work with iCloud storage. Time and time again his love for Apple products made very questionable decisions and sometimes screwed the department's budget (which was very low by the way, our directors were not at all smart) because of his love for Apple. Some people are just needlessly loyal to Apple.

@@leeiuum-oldchannel2146 Sounds like someone that has (or had) to get replaced.

""OPTIMIZE THE POWER FLOW" what the fuck is he on about lmao

Smells like an utter b.. stink.

@@FalloutUgglan bro idk man, I’ve had roommates who believed that using a longer HDMI cable would decrease framerates because the frames had to travel over longer distances

@@andrewe.2464 What the......? What.... How? What is he......? 😂😂😂😂

@@andrewe.2464 Yeah maybe by 1/10000000000 of a millisecond

Absolutely correct, the way they had to pull out the cable almost guarantees that you will break one of the lines in very few cycles.

Yeah.. that's Apple for ya. I wish I hadn't bought an ipad from them. Like other competitors have their styluses in the box while apple sells it separately for 100$ or 130$ for the second generation one. And here's the thing they come without spare nips so that's an extra eventual expense. They don't sell them individually so you have to buy a pack of 4 that's 40$. And that's just a fraction of the sweindle-pro company that is Apple. "Does more, costs less". They're whole engineering and design ideology is "create the problem, sell the solution".

Ya I don’t know why people still think about apple logically. Their logic is to fleece their simps. They have been very consistent for decades that they will create failures and make things as expensive as possible bc their fans are morons with credit cards. Everyone knows why they do the things they do. There is a segment of whale zeros who will happily pay for their nonsense. They aren’t targeting regular people, they cater to their simps.

As a hobby I beta test hardware and software... I seen some dumb on purpose greedy design...

Completely agree. Complete monopolistic of the tech world. It's the Apple way or no way; Airpods not being compatible with android devices, (whereas Galaxy Buds have always been compatible with Apple products), green vs blue text bubble, list goes on and on. Oh, and if you don't have an iPhone or Apple product you're poor and lame. Lmao absolute sheep people and money grubbing company.

China will do it anyways💁‍♂️

@@kikihun9726 well said

And then they will advertise the next model with "NOW WITH REMOVABLE CABLE!" and all the people who do not really look into tech stuff but just blindly buy it go "woaaaaah".

@@kikihun9726 and Apple will go "no don't, buying unlicensed parts might BURN YOUR HOUSE", and *someone* might even have legit issues, which will further make Apple's point sound convincing... if not for the part that the issue is entirely avoidable by offering good old standard plugs like everyone else does

Im more anoyed that Apple does Not allow Apps that would move your data of their phones to a diffrent Brand (ex: Samsung smart switch, Huawei phone clone, Google's New device thingy) so that it is inconvinient to move to a diffrent Brand (also you dont loose acess to Apple music on Android it is a propaganda that is still pushed around) On the other hand "move to ios" is avalable on google Play and Huawei app galery makeing it convinient to move to IOS Now that does Not mean you cant move off ios it can be done tho it will be waay more frustrateing and will allow any of their customers to stay cuz they will realised that it is Hard to get out and it is in fact for most their first experience of the other side Not to mention human psycie preffers what is convinient

When I switched from an IPhone 6+ back to an android, I didn't recieve calls or texts for 3 days. No one told me I had to go to some random website and deactivate my number from my icloud account. It made literally no sense to me, how does apple lock my phone number to an email when I have a Sim card?

@@brandonolney7936 idk but would be illegal to Do in EU blocking a SIM to a device

Oh no, I just imagined people having power cable hanging from their pockets

i will have nightmares now thanks

@@luqdude It's okay our Apple overlords will have a app to ease your suffering, so long as you keep paying the monthly subscription fee. 😀

Apple already DRMs power. My Series 7 Watch will only charge absurdly slowly (much, much slower than a vanilla series 6 - like 6 hours to charge) on ANYTHING other than Apple's USB-C puck paired with Apple's USB-C brick. My series 6 would charge normally on every third-party charger I have, as well as the old Apple chargers that they've been making since the first Watch.

Please don't give them more ideas.

@Timothy Murphy I’ve managed to get some pretty sexy shocks off a plug left plugged into the back of my 5,1 Mac Pro after unplugging the cord from the wall. I would like to see an IP rating for that connector.

then they ought to design it better. this is no mom and pop shop, this is apple. A trillion dollar company should design stuff better

@@N1lav I dont really get how they can be so conceited that a normal power plug (like the one found on PCs) is out of the question, so they engineer a cooler plug, but now that one isn't to safety standards because it exposes MAINS voltage on barely recessed contacts (dangerous), so their best solution is to... simply make it semi permanent. This is a train of thought Ii would have expected from governmental bodies, not a "cutting edge" tech company. Yeah, apparently Apple techs will be able to replace it (with a special tool to remove it), but still. Also it's funny that here you can imply that they do this so they can ge more money from people, for apple care or for the "power cable repair" prices.

@@sinni800 Yeah I would like my monitor with IEC plug or something reasonable. This is so wrong... But at least I don't have to buy it.

@Timothy Murphy The fact that it cannot meet the IEC specification for the cloverleaf (60320 I think) connector as far as the depth of the connector receding into the socket is probably why they did it.

bruh i physically cringed watching linus coil that cable up on his hand getting ready to rip it out

R u still working there after this comment? 🤣

@@john-red "I worked" answers your question

@@john-red he quite litterally said "i worked" past tense my dude

@@seanbutcher8482 Give him a break he didn't make it that far in primary education

I think the fixed power cable on studio display is fine, on iMac the power cable sometimes is too easy to detach, I’ve experienced and witness accidentally unplug the power cord of iMac by just adjusting the view angle

You mean the IEC (320) C13? The one used on almost literally everything ever? Apple won't use that for the same reason as type C - making their products more universal decreases special cable sales when people buy replacement cables from them. On that note, Apple is one of the most greenwashing companies when it comes to being environmentally friendly. Gotta love all the E-Waste they make from unrepairable product and they claim a small cable is devastating.

@@annihilator247x The 27 inch Intel iMac uses this standard cable

Naw if they are going to make a proprietary Magsafe cable, they better put it on everything.

The display is too thin.

@@annihilator247x The C13 connector is used on the Mac Pro, the older iMac's and almost all older bier products. Even the freaking new Mac Studio uses a standaard C6 / c5 cable

"Im sorry, the whole display needs to be replaced." "The cost of repairing this is higher than a new screen"

I’d just connect the pins manually at that point

@@ZaHandle Chop a standard IEC cable off and break out the soldering gun?

@@ryanjay6241 yeah

Silicon valley always designs for California, if that

Ha I just posted the same thing!

You just take the plug off.

@@SimonLYW That's going to play well with most corporates. There is a legal requirement to have a moulded plug fitted to products in the UK when sold new in the UK. Replacing that with an opening plug defeats the object of the legislation don't you think?

@@SimonLYW You can't. It will be moulded to the other end of the cable. That is a legal requirement under our electrical code.

Just stop buying it, powerless consumer. No one's forcing you to.

or, jus refuse to acknowledge Apple products or the company.

As if the new dog wasn't expensive enough already.

Wow, I love paying Apple to step on me, love it!

Excuse me WHAT?!? I mean sure apple loves to f*ck their customers but that's some bs right there.

@@GeorgeU55 not new. watch some repairs by Louis Rossman if you want the full scoop ;)

@@GeorgeU55 It might be possible to indeed add a second drive after buying the computer or swap out, but this will require hacking as seen on Luke Miani's video. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xEwS_VGD2yY.html&ab_channel=LukeMiani

@@Djou-Karl That means it is not very reliable: New models, or even a software update (which updates firmware) will make that to not work anymore.

@Simon Wood I think the EU might have something to do with this, remmember how unhappy Apple was when they were told to use USB-c by the EU? I think someone in there office said if the problem is we cant used a non standard removable cable, then just make the cable non removable, you know instead of making it the standard one...

@@shoootme The EU legislation is focused on mobile devices, so no.

Especially on a monitor mount tou need extra long cables

I would imagine Steve giving the Homer- Strangle-Bart on live.. LOL 😆 🤣

Seriously though, I would've accepted Apple using that iMac Magsafe connector on here, as at least that's removable, and Apple using a proprietary connector is hardly a new thing. But what's extra dumb is that despite just coming out with that fancy new iMac connector last year, they went and made *another* power connector just so that they could make it harder to remove. That's just obnoxious and actively costumer hostile. The only way they could get more hostile is if they physically punched you when you're checking out at the Apple Store.

And FCKIN PHONE NOTCHES! I hate those so much! And basically every manufacturer started copying it. And now it's on Apple's laptops too, for reasons. Cause of course it is. I don't know who came up first with this "Bezels=BAD and need to be eliminated at ALL COST!" mentality, but I'd have some kind words for them... -.-"

@@FamiliarGecko let’s be real the only reason the notch still exists is brand recognition. When you see a notch you get frustrated at Apple for keeping it but It makes the iPhone even more recognisable even if it’s still dumb a hell in 2022. Let’s hope the 14 rumours are true and apples moved to a hole punch.

@@FamiliarGecko Well I mean Apple just popularised the "notch" as the first phone to have the camera cutout was the Essential Phone PH1 which turned out to be junk due to it's lack of repairability and the company eventually folded. It's the same scenario with capacitive touch screens on smartphones, the LG Prada was the first in 2006 but Apple popularised it in 2007 (they also had a new UI design though)

@@Joshie117 the notch is one of the few things Apple couldn't do better, Face ID needs extra sensors, under display tech still ain't good enough. It probably could be smaller, although the monstrosity that is the rumored iPhone 14 Pro/Pro Max dual holes (hole punch + pill shaped hole) may indicate otherwise

Moto Z was the first phone to remove headphone jack, notch was lg v10 or Essential PH1 depending who you ask. Biometric sensors being disabled has been a thing since iPhone 5s... nice.

I've got a CRT with a broken VGA cable. I have to mod it with a vga connector on the back. we are in hell.

I had a SVGA CRT with a builtin vga cable. Obviously it failed after a few years.. it sucked.

why cant you fix it. if you know how to solder just open it and solder a new cable or better a connector to it.

@@SimonBauer7 "why cant you fix it? if you know how to solder-" congrats youve answered your own question. I may know how to solder since I'm an engineer, but the average consumer probably doesnt know how to. it shouldnt be the end user who needs to deal with it. attaching a new cable should be as simple as plugging it in. this is just a very anti-consumer move, and really highlights how companies will take advantage of small things to squeeze the consumer dry with future fees

@@SimonBauer7 I did not know how to solder at 16. Now I could fix it, even if they have made it as difficult as possible, but this is designed to make it difficult with no need.

universal adapters exists

@@blaze0899 if you read the whole comment you’d see why that’s the problem Apple want

I think you've nailed it.

Not to mention, those adapters tend to be bulky. - And in my limited experience easy to accidentally unplug. (I mean there are more points of failure so to speak)

this actually makes sense well done