Good job ifixit! This should be a cause for outrage. Pretending to support the right to repair while also softwarelocking repairs is not just two faced, but actively harming the consumers.
this post was submitted on 20 Sep 2023
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Place Pikachu surprised face meme here for me, please. Apple simps, unite.
EDIT: They always do.
Most Apple SIMPs don't care it seems they got nothing to hide and they are deff not poor to be worried about shit like this. Just buy a new one ;)
While I personally wouldn’t repair my own iPhone. If I need it done I would want to go to an Apple Store anyway. This makes selling on your phone for other people to fix and use and sell on and use again virtually impossible, which would’ve been more sustainable than just binning the phone.
It’s especially shitty since they also announced net zero plans. It’s all smoke and mirrors.
SIMPs don't think big picture but you do make a very valid point...
Second hand market benefits everyone except Tim apple
So sad. I got into argument just a few days ago and they used ifixit's repairability score as justification for their nonsense.
Has anyone been surprised in the slightest that Apple locks you in, since the 1980's? I mean, it's literally ALWAYS BEEN the shittiest company to do any tech work with because it's so proprietary, in their hardware, software, entire ecosystem. THIS WAS ALWAYS THE PROBLEM WITH APPLE WHY HAVE SO MANY IDIOTS BOUGHT INTO IT.
WHY HAVE SO MANY IDIOTS BOUGHT INTO IT.
Good UI, familiarity, catering to non-tech people, marketing to certain lifestyles, and the hassle of migrating out of the apple ecosystem and buying new apps. At one time apple had better offerings than the PC world did, but when it caught up any reason to buy apple products at 1.5x the cost evaporated for me. This was long before smartphones.
Decent product with big marketing appealing to their desire to be uniquely elite
People voted with their wallets
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Better late than never
seems to make apple's support of easily removable batteries a bit less rosy.
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