{"id":10041,"date":"2023-05-17T23:37:18","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T21:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/17\/we-are-losing-money-companies-in-apples-repair-program-say-they-cant-compete-with-tech-giant\/"},"modified":"2023-05-17T23:37:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T21:37:18","slug":"we-are-losing-money-companies-in-apples-repair-program-say-they-cant-compete-with-tech-giant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/17\/we-are-losing-money-companies-in-apples-repair-program-say-they-cant-compete-with-tech-giant\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We are losing money\u2019: companies in Apple\u2019s repair program say they can\u2019t compete with tech giant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Exclusive:<\/strong> Slow response times and high cost of parts make program unviable, third-party repairers say<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2023\/may\/18\/australia-news-live-aukus-submarines-peter-garrett-far-right-mayors-melbourne-lgbt-councils-quad-modi-anthony-albanese-peter-dutton\">Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/oct\/29\/email-newsletters-guardian-australia-best-daily-news-emails-newsletter-free-sign-up-inbox-subscribe-headlines?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning and afternoon news emails<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Companies in Apple\u2019s third-party repair program say delays in the process and high pricing for parts make it almost impossible to compete with the juggernaut.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021 Apple, under pressure from a Productivity Commission review on the \u201cright to repair\u201d, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/mar\/30\/apple-to-let-repairers-in-australia-and-new-zealand-sign-up-to-spare-parts-program\">launched its independent repair provider program in Australia<\/a>. It was trumpeted as a way for small companies to compete with Apple to repair their products \u2013 such as the iPhone \u2013 using Apple tools and spare parts.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/oct\/29\/email-newsletters-guardian-australia-best-daily-news-emails-newsletter-free-sign-up-inbox-subscribe-headlines?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s free morning and afternoon<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/oct\/29\/email-newsletters-guardian-australia-best-daily-news-emails-newsletter-free-sign-up-inbox-subscribe-headlines?CMP=copyembed\"> <\/a><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/oct\/29\/email-newsletters-guardian-australia-best-daily-news-emails-newsletter-free-sign-up-inbox-subscribe-headlines?CMP=copyembed\">email newsletters for your daily news roundup<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/may\/18\/we-are-losing-money-companies-in-apples-repair-program-say-they-cant-compete-with-tech-giant\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/ddb29391c682131c146cb33595b093022c27a2e0\/0_163_4891_2935\/master\/4891.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=b8652e4e52eedc99f0a1a9fe0dc585cf\" title=\"\u2018We are losing money\u2019: companies in Apple\u2019s repair program say they can\u2019t compete with tech giant\" \/>Exclusive: Slow response times and high cost of parts make program unviable, third-party repairers say<\/p>\n<p>Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates<br \/>\nGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast<\/p>\n<p>Companies in Apple\u2019s third-party repair program say delays in the process and high pricing for parts make it almost impossible to compete with the juggernaut.<br \/>\nIn 2021 Apple, under pressure from a Productivity Commission review on the \u201cright to repair\u201d, launched its independent repair provider program in Australia. It was trumpeted as a way for small companies to compete with Apple to repair their products \u2013 such as the iPhone \u2013 using Apple tools and spare parts.<br \/>\nSign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Slow response times and high cost of parts make program unviable, third-party repairers say Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Companies in Apple\u2019s third-party repair program say delays in the process and high pricing for parts make &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/17\/we-are-losing-money-companies-in-apples-repair-program-say-they-cant-compete-with-tech-giant\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018We are losing money\u2019: companies in Apple\u2019s repair program say they can\u2019t compete with tech giant<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10041"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}