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[ifixit] We Are Retroactively Dropping the iPhone’s Repairability Score (www.ifixit.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[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…

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We almost need a new term for this, because Digital Rights Management (DRM) is usually for digital media. I'd almost want to call this Physical Rights Management, since it's controlling our right to physically repair and swap parts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s called “right to repair”, if I’m not mistaken.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Right to repair is the term from the consumer perspective. I'm talking about a term for the anti-repair locks that Apple is putting in their products (since DRM doesn't quite fit, though it's close)