A new lawsuit claims Apple has placed internal obstacles to consumers' ability to repair its devices.

Anyone who has ever owned an Apple device understands.

When that device, so precious and beloved at the beginning, fails or breaks, you know you are in for a rough few days if not weeks, depending on where you live.

First, you probably try to figure out how to fix it yourself using YouTube. When that inevitably fails, you then have to find the local Apple store, in which you hope the company has a Genius Bar. 

Then you have to make an appointment at the Genius Bar, which depending on where you live could be anytime as soon as the next day or six weeks in the future. 

After that, you wait until the day comes, you take your device in, and wait some more, usually in lines of multiple people, even though you had an appointment. 

Then, finally, at long last, you hand your device to the genius at the counter, and if you are very lucky, they fix it right then and there.

If you are not lucky, however, that genius tells you your device is going to need to stay there to be fixed by someone with more knowledge, or sent off to someplace with more skill, or even replaced totally which will take ... weeks.