[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…

  • WindowsEnjoyer@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Why do people care about Apple’s repairability? If you don’t like that your phone is unrepairable - don’t buy it?

    • Flat Pluto Society@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Because there are a lot of people out there who don’t know about or understand all this, and I don’t think a regular consumer should be expected to know about weird software quirks to be protected from a company’s rapaciously anti-consumer policies.

    • smileyhead
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      1 year ago

      But we have a problem in capitalistic markets now. We have dozens different flavors of same thing.

    • Syrc@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Because I love iPhones and iOs, I just wish the ones making them weren’t such asses with their customers.