Globally, there are more than 5,000 Apple-authorized service providers with above 100,000 active technicians.Īpple Inc. To increase sales of its Mac products, Apple is expanding its accessibility features to attract new customers.ĪAPL also nearly doubled the number of service centers worldwide. In the last reported third quarter 2022, Mac sales of $7.38 billion decreased 10.4% from the year-ago quarter’s level and accounted for 8.9% of total sales. Dell beat Apple in opening its own accessories store where customers buy computing devices like laptop parts, batteries and upgrades. AAPL is facing fierce competition from companies like Dell Technologies ( DELL Quick Quote DELL - Free Report) in the area of desktop and other computing devices.ĪAPL is operating in a highly competitive space where companies like Dell are vying for market share with aggressive pricing competition, frequent introduction of products and services and easy availability of products in the market, which users can use to repair their products comfortably. This recent service offered by Apple is in order to attract customers who are experienced with the knowledge of repairing electronic devices and can complete repairs on these Mac notebooks, with access to many of the same parts and tools available at Apple Store locations and with AAPL-authorized service providers.Īpple’s recent provision for customers will likely aid MacBook sales growth. The self-service repair program for MacBook Air and MacBook Pro offers more than a dozen different repair types for each model, including the display, top case with battery and a track pad. The manual and genuine Apple parts required for repairing Apple notebooks are made available for users at the Apple self-service repair store from today (Aug 23, 2022).ĪAPL launched the self-service repair program earlier this year for iPhone users in the United States and the program will expand operations to countries in Europe later this year. Whether it will work right and whether I can figure it out remain to be seen.Apple ( AAPL Quick Quote AAPL - Free Report) has announced the expansion of its self-service repair services for MacBook Air and MacBook Pro notebooks, which are installed with the M1 chip. I'm still not sure what it was supposed to accomplish, but in all events after following a separate chain of pushbuttons I can launch Izotope on my computer now. OK, I just went back to the Izotope installer and discovered that the referral to iLok may have been a bum steer. I miss the days when one bought software on a disk, copied it to the computer, and set it to running without messing around with registries and authorizations and portals and other related folderol invented for the sole benefit of the software publishers. Maybe this is a test to see if the buyer has enough savvy to master the software in use. At the moment I'm just cycling through a seemingly endless circle of screens that tell me this or that status but don't let me do anything. At the moment, I'm stuck I fumbled my way through installing something called iLok, which apparently is nothing to do with Izotope itself but is necessary to get the software to install, and then the Izotope product portal, which is necessary to get the software loaded onto my computer, and then actually installed the software, but now it tells me I must "authorize" it through the iLok thing "and don't forget to transfer the license," and I haven't yet figured out how to make either of those processes work or even what I'm trying to accomplish. Word of warning for those who may do likewise, however: this software has the most ridiculously complicated process for downloading and installing that I have ever encountered. (A week or two after you buy the $29 version, you'd get a discount offer for the full RX 8 for $199 instead of $399.)īuy iZotope RX 8 Elements Audio Repair | Sound Editing/Production SoftwareĬlick to expand.I went ahead and bought a copy thanks for the heads up. I'd guess that over a year, one third of the time it is on sale for $29. There is Izotope RX Elements which often is on sale for $29, but at the moment it is the normal $129. Izotope RX is better but at 13x the price it should be. It's a beginner program but there is plenty in there to do great things or serious damage. You get 3 chances to save a processed file before you pay and register it, but if you don't save anything you can always play with its features and controls. Download the trial, load a WAV file, then experiment, click the Play icon (not "Preview" but try that and hear what happens) and "Customize" and there is much to play around with as you listen in real time.
It has declick, and several other types of audio processing, which are all adjustable and can be previewed in (split second delay) real time.
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