iPhone 13 teardown and repair assessment [video]
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#2This is news? Everything Apple makes is a repair nightmare, that is their gimmick. You have to buy Applecare and you have to buy parts from them. That is the only way they can “innovate” — or so they have always claimed.
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#3This is news? Everything Apple makes is a repair nightmare, that is their gimmick. You have to buy Applecare and you have to buy parts from them. That is the only way they can “innovate” — or so they have always claimed.
> that is their gimmick
It's not.
> That is the only way they can “innovate” — or so they have always claimed.
They haven't.
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#4This is news? Everything Apple makes is a repair nightmare, that is their gimmick. You have to buy Applecare and you have to buy parts from them. That is the only way they can “innovate” — or so they have always claimed.
Uhm, I think they claim that it is the best way for them to innovate, not the only way… and if people who disagree twist their words, that doesn't make their stance less plausible.
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#6Every time an iphone is released we have to see this? I don't want to repair my phone. It's got a two year warranty, and after two years if it breaks I'll buy another.
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#7Every time an iphone is released we have to see this? I don't want to repair my phone. It's got a two year warranty, and after two years if it breaks I'll buy another.
Your own habits aren’t everyone’s habits. Not everyone is on a two-year upgrade cycle, especially when the iPhones are worth near or above $1000 now. Many people who own a smartphone only have it at all thanks to the affordable prices of refurbished (i.e. repaired) units on the second-hand market. It’s silly to say repair is unimportant when you consider how many tons of waste this creates - and how little is actually recovered through the recycling processes Apple and other retailers push hard to make you not feel bad about upgrading. It’s eventually someone’s problem to deal with how unrepairable your disused phone is, ultimately depleting the raw resources we all rely on, so yes, you should care.
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#8so freaking weird, even if you change only the cable between the display and the motherboard the phone knows and stops working properly. how do they even do that ? I assumed the cable doesn't have any logic or chips in it.
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#9Meh, people will not get tired of this it seems. What did the eternal repeating of this ever net you? A tentative promise that they will support the right to repair movement, one they are not obligated to fulfill, and of course it’s always in the future.
That’s the best you could hope for with such naive activism.
Anecdotal evidence: out of 20+ people with iPhones I know, only one ever had to send it for repairs. In our backwater Eastern Europe this still took only two days: he got a brand new one without having to pay a penny.
I get it, devices we buy must be repairable. Lately I bought a laptop and I’m looking forward to upgrading its RAM and SSD by myself. And I’ll enjoy decommissioning my old gaming PC in a year or so by disassembling it and selling it in parts. I too want repair ability in my tech, and I enjoy practicing it.
But apparently Apple will not budge. It’s astonishing how people are under the illusion that talking is going to sway one of the biggest company entities on the planet. And it makes for pretty boring news.
“You heard it here first folks, the planet is still spinning today“.
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#10Every time an iphone is released we have to see this? I don't want to repair my phone. It's got a two year warranty, and after two years if it breaks I'll buy another.
Your own habits aren’t everyone’s habits. Not everyone is on a two-year upgrade cycle, especially when the iPhones are worth near or above $1000 now. Many people who own a smartphone only have it at all thanks to the affordable prices of refurbished (i.e. repaired) units on the second-hand market. It’s silly to say repair is unimportant when you consider how many tons of waste this creates - and how little is actuall…
iPhone SE are sold starting at $400, 11 at $500, 12 at $600. I used the original SE, which I also got well under $1,000, for 4 years before getting the new SE. And the original SE still works.
There has not been a need to update every two years for many years. And there is far more waste from lower quality products that last fewer years.