We Are Retroactively Dropping the iPhone’s Repairability Score | iFixit News
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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…

  • nehal3m@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    20·
    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.