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ono to [email protected]English • 2 years ago

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…
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    I don’t get the surprise… Apple has ALWAYS been like this. They don’t want “normies” screwing around with “their” gear.

    Heck, you needed a case cracker tool to open the OG Macintosh machines, they were specifically engineered to keep people out.

    https://archive.org/details/mac_Mac_case_cracker_instructions_box_198x

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      True but the Mac G4, especially, was an absolute dream to work on. So I don’t agree they remained this way.

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