#Right to Repair

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Still Rotting iPhone owners Aug 2026

Apple Will Fix Your Phone, Then Refuse to Let You Fix It Yourself

Apple’s phones are famously hard to repair, and the company’s answer to that criticism was to sell parts, official ones, that then refuse to work unless the phone verifies they came from Apple. It’s the repair business as an exercise in control: the right to fix your own device, doled out only through Apple’s approved […]

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Still Rotting Farmers / John Deere customers Aug 2026

John Deere: The Tractor You Bought, That They Still Own

You bought the tractor. John Deere still owns the repair. Here’s the part of the enshittification thesis that has nothing to do with ads. A farmer buys a half-million-dollar tractor – pays cash, takes on the debt, keeps it in the family for decades, the way farm equipment has always worked. Then it throws a […]

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