APPLE DITCHES GREEN STANDARD, CUTS OFF FEDERAL AGENCIES FROM APPLE PRODUCTS

http://ifixit.org ^ | July 6, 2012

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Federal agencies can no longer buy Apple products for their offices. According to a recent announcement, Apple will be pulling all of their products from the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT), the leading green consumer electronics standard. EPEAT is designed to mitigate the negative environmental and social impacts of electronics manufacturing by requiring that products meet eight environmental “performance categories,” including product lifetime, toxic materials, and recyclability of components and packaging materials.

[Talisker]

So much for the cover story...

Bwahahahaha!

[Lancey Howard]

That’s pretty good!

[4rcane]

Don’t confuse EPA approved to mean pro environment. EPA puts up lots of rules that have nothing to do with improving the environment, only boxes to tick to make you feel good about yourself

[antceecee]

EPA = GreenWashing.....ton...

[Domangart]

According to the radio show the slaves are gluing the apple junk together. You can not fix it or replace the battery when it blows up.

[sarah palin rocks]

Apple is in the business of making money period. If it costs too much then they won’t do it no matter what the gov’t preaches.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

“According to the radio show the slaves are gluing the apple junk together. You can not fix it or replace the battery when it blows up. “

Yes, the new MacBook Pro with Retina Display has RAM that is soldered in. You can't upgrade, and have to buy from Apple. The new MacBooks also have a new magnetic plug in that won't work with the old cords. Mac always does this (changes something that requires you to pop another 20-40 dollars for an ‘adapter’), an it is really becoming irritating. Having said that, I've seen the new MacBook Pro and the display is quite amazing.

[Prov1322]

BTW, the iFixit.com folks do an extraordinary job of breaking down replacement steps and selling parts for many Apple products. I was able to successfully replace the battery on my wife's iPhone last year with their $18 replacement battery and very detailed steps. The Techs even answer the phone here in the USA!

Highly recommend them for any repair/replacement issues you may want to tackle yourself.

[napscoordinator]

I have had a Macbook Pro for over two years and never had a problem with it. My I-Phone is totally fine and my I-Pad is great when on vacation and other times. I have ZERO problems with Apple. Too bad more companies can’t be like this success story.

[randita]

I’ve had my MacBook Pro for 2 1/2 years now. Not a lick of trouble. The battery life is amazing - almost 7 hours for basic work (not on internet, etc.).

You can replace the battery yourself.

[Swordmaker]

Apple removes its product from the e-Peat standards list—PING!

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[roadcat]

Do other manufacturers other than Apple adhere to EPEAT? Do tablets and smart phones made by other manufacturers as well as Apple fall under EPEAT rules? A lot of this so-called reporting is just targetting Apple for a segment of their products. They’re talking only laptops here. Not the entire Apple line.

[dayglored]

> ...A lot of this so-called reporting is just targetting Apple for a segment of their products....

It smells to me like the typical blogpimp gambit:

"I know! Let's work 'Apple' into a headline, that'll get us blog hits!!"

The facts may all be true, and they may be true now (ior in the near future) of many other companies putting out tight, lightweight devices. But the way the headline reads, Apple just told all their hippie-dip eco-enviro-conscious fans to go take a hike. Wow, hit that link!!

I doubt very much Apple has that in mind, with one caveat. Apple is in the technology business to be the best and make a profit. If they can be groovy at the same time, great. But groovy without profit is a starving artist in a garret.

Anyone who thinks that replaceable and recyclable parts don't add cost, weight, size, and (if there are connectors) unreliability, hasn't been paying attention to electronics the past 5 decades.

Same old crapola -- put "Apple" in the headline, get blog hits.

[antiRepublicrat]

Easy repairability requires added size, weight and complexity. iFixit is great, but Apple is just going in a direction that’s not very friendly to home fixing, with extremely tight integration and packaging of the devices.

It used to be you could even upgrade the chip in an XBox. Not anymore, now the 360 has a new chip and in later versions the system is on one integrated chip, totally non-repairable.