How idealism and opportunism can cloud someone's mind

Wow, it is people who watched some video blog who won't be making unrepairable and unprotected mess of notebooks. Really? Meaning that poor engineers who are making all this present things around us dreamed from childhood how to hurt humanity as much as possible (because they watched wrong animation series)? Seriously?

No, Louis. Laws is not "downstream of culture".

Law is the will of the ruling class transformed into legal regulations.

Print it in the big letters and attach above your bed, Louis. And you won't be asking stupid questions on how Apple get away with all that they do.

And all little "seeds that you had been planting all this years" somehow hurt reparability more and more. Get any notebook of 2009 and compare to 2019. Now it is soldered CPUs with Intel Boot Guard enabled (and that are not available on the market contrary to 2009!), soldered RAM, soldered SSDs must have come from your long time fans, I suppose?

Offering big money to companies to provide you boardview and schematics (that they already have for free, it does not require extra expenses) is also nuts. This guys keep them secret not because they did not watch your channel or they are inherently stupid. Nope.

Remember this famous quote from J. Reed. "There are two classes, the proletariat and the bourgeoisie... And whoever isn't on one side is on the other".

They do it because they are on the other side, and engineers, while being part of proletariat, are not realizing their interests and not fight for them. They are just simply implementing will of the ruling class. And they will just continue to watch your channel and won't widen their knowledge and asking your ideas credibility, they'll be still an idiots. Btw, Louis, you are also on the same side as they are, despite all the loud words. Because of libertarian views and "common logic" approach to core questions. This is why ruling class loves you and will try to promote more. Try to change videos adding class analysis and you will instantly see "results".

Either the dictatorship (i.e., the iron rule) of the landowners and capitalists, or the dictatorship of the working class.

There is no middle course.

The ... intellectualists and petty gentry, badly educated on bad books, dream of a middle course. There is no middle course anywhere in the world, nor can there be. Either the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie... or the dictatorship of the proletariat. He who has not learned this from the whole history .. is a hopeless idiot.

And this positive example is... new version of most unrepairable tablet/notebook in history. Because you now can open.. top cover. And they hide the screws, wow! Not that you can repair much of it, no. But look - it is positive thing, they blinked the right eye, must mean something!

And this is where opportunism leads

It is not comfortable to openly say that Apple is gradually and steadily doing. So Louis constantly lie even to himself.

More fun from Louis

Making damage to MacBook in such a way that authorized service could only replace mainboard (and hence won't be able to save the data on SSD), and doing it KNOWING this in advance. It is not the service that you can blame - it is Apple, as allowing authorized services to do actual repairs and providing them with small components will significantly reduce Apple profits.

Another petty bourgeoisie hope

"There are two classes, the proletariat and the bourgeoisie... And whoever isn't on one side is on the other".

J. Reed

And this guys always want to balance, find pretty warm place to be in harmony, but it never happens.

And as Apple will wipe most of them out, with nice smile on their CEO face - they won't complain much.

Wow, Louis again is in trap and become anti libertarian even

Just look - it is better to buy original Apple batteries and screens directly at very big premium, and not buy parts from the highly competitive and amazing market that should produce nice alternatives (as it is big request for them!). Market somehow mostly consist from people who want fast money and are selling you various not so nice used parts. Welcome to... imperialism, where big sharks control the ocean.

Another thing - neglecting of process logic, lack of viewing situation as it develops. Apple gradually made any repair harder and more costly, step by step. And continue to do so. But suddenly, after making things worse again, offered services to provide all their location and contacts (and additional) data in return for fuzzy promises Apple wants to know who you are and that you do and, I am sure, instantly figure out all financial situation on each of such companies. After this they will feed some selected mice small amount of cheese, and next the trap will snap. Apple will legally and economically destroy most of third party repair businesses. This guys will do it, just give them the time.

Proper way for libertarian who understands where he lives (during imperialism stage) is to demand for anti-monopoly system to intrude and force Apple and all of parts manufacturers to ship original parts they also sell to Apple into open market with premium no more than 20% compared to the prices in the Apple contracts. This also include all the Apple own design parts like chips, such as TSMC will have obligation to have safe stock for all chips for 5 years (20-30% of all chips made) and obligation to sell them according to demand with same margins limit. Such thing will also have interesting consequences, as Apple will start to bleed money they now get by offering replacement parts similar to auto makers at high premiums.