Roman Mars
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We reached out to John Deere to discuss claims made in the story.
In response, they sent us information about their consumer repair software.
And John Deere told us that they estimate there are third party replacement parts for about 60% of all John Deere parts on the market today.
A representative told us that Apple supports third party replacement parts, except in cases where there are security concerns.
Apple also told us they have recently expanded access to their repair tools for consumers and have a recycling take back program in most countries that sell Apple products.
99% Invisible was produced this week by Chris Berube, edited by Emmett Fitzgerald, fact-checking by Graham Heysha, mix by Martin Gonzalez, music by Swan Rial, and George Lankford.
Cory Doctorow's latest book is called Enchidification, Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It.
It is super fun and infuriating, but mostly fun.
You can find it wherever you buy books.
Special thanks this week to Nathan Proctor at the PIRG.
The rest of the team includes Jason DeLeon, Christopher Johnson, Vivian Leigh, Lasha Madon, Jacob Medina-Gleason, Kelly Prime, Joe Rosenberg, Talon and Rain Stradley, and me, Roman Mars.
The 99% Invisible logo was created by Stephan Lawrence.
We are part of the SiriusXM podcast family, now headquartered six blocks north in the Pandora building in beautiful Uptown, Oakland, California.
You can find us on Blue Sky as well as our own Discord server.
You can find a link to that as well as every past episode of 99PI at 99pi.org.