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Apple's Self-Service Repair Program

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Apple today announced Self Service Repair, which will allow customers who are comfortable with completing their own repairs access to Apple genuine parts and tools.

This caused a number of reactions all at once.

  1. It’s official, hell has frozen over.
  2. Can someone help me pick up my jaw off the floor?
  3. First fires, then floods, now an Apple-authorized self-repair program — the world really is ending.

Available first for the iPhone 12 and iPhone 13 lineups, and soon to be followed by Mac computers featuring M1 chips, Self Service Repair will be available early next year in the US and expand to additional countries throughout 2022.

This will either be huge, or it’s going to go entirely unnoticed. I hope the former but fear the latter.