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We need to have a serious chat about iPhone repairability. We judged the phones of yesteryear by how easy they were to take apart—screws, glues, how hard it was…

[ifixit] We Are Retroactively Dropping the iPhone’s Repairability Score::We need to have a serious chat about iPhone repairability. We judged the phones of yesteryear by how easy they were to take apart—screws, glues, how hard it was…

  • Hazdaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    313·
    1 year ago

    And consumers “punish” Apple for these unrepairable devices by buying new iphones in record numbers.

    Until consumers hurt Apple in the ONE place it cares - it’s pocketbook - hope is lost on changing them.

    But consumers are like lemmings. We see this in pre-orders for videogames and folks who proudly are buying the latest crop of obnoxiously priced videocards, or in the car industry where some consumers paying way over sticker just so they can have the latest new model.

    And then we wonder why companies seem to have us bent over.

    • Gianni R@lemmy.mlEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      Your two options are a repair ability nightmare with worrying privacy problems, and another repairability nightmare that may be slightly more repairable but is still a nightmare. Oh, and it is a privacy hellhole. The Fairphone is great, though, & seems to check all boxes

    • sebinspace@lemmy.worldEnglish
      310·
      1 year ago

      They’re actually quite easily repairable, with the right tools and knowledge. I quite enjoyed working on them while I worked in that industry. You don’t need all the heavy tools Apple send you as part of their odd program, you can use a regular spudge to get the phone open, IPA to dissolve the adhesives, and there are third party suppliers from which you can source parts.

      And if you don’t want to go through all of that, that’s entirely understandable. That’s why you can also go to third-party repair shops that have these tools and supplies to be able to perform these repairs.

      There are plenty of legitimate reasons to criticize these things and Apple proper without stretching the truth. “Unrepairable” is not an applicable term here.

      • nehal3m@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        8·
        1 year ago

        Except they VIN lock everything. If you execute a screen swap on 2 brand new phones perfectly, the result is a crippled phone.

        There’s plenty of underhanded tactics Apple employs.

        Check out Hugh Jeffreys’ content on this.

        • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          Yep… and they put those weird DRM locks on more and more components every new release.

          I’d wager 80% of all new product design costs are purely apple researching how to make them even more consumer unfriendly and DRM laden.