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[ifixit] We Are Retroactively Dropping the iPhone’s Repairability Score (www.ifixit.com)

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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] 45 points 2 years ago (18 children)

And consumers "punish" Apple for these unrepairable devices by buying new iphones in record numbers.

Until consumers hurt Apple in the ONE place it cares - it's pocketbook - hope is lost on changing them.

But consumers are like lemmings. We see this in pre-orders for videogames and folks who proudly are buying the latest crop of obnoxiously priced videocards, or in the car industry where some consumers paying way over sticker just so they can have the latest new model.

And then we wonder why companies seem to have us bent over.

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