Apple’s iPhone 14 Redesign for Repair
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Apple’s iPhone 14 Redesign for Repair
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#2> Forget satellite SOS and the larger camera, the headline is this: Apple has completely redesigned the internals of the iPhone 14 to make it easier to repair.
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#3It's good to see Apple behaving and recognising the momentum the Rights to Repair movement has got globally in the last few years (especially in the large market of EU, and now picking up in Asia). But I think iFixit has been too generous in giving the iPhone 14 a repairability score of 7 out of 10 when Apple still places additional unwanted hurdles and control through software:
> We are hearing reports that Apple is continuing their hostile path of pairing parts to the phone, requiring activation of the back glass after installation. You really shouldn’t need Apple’s permission to install a sheet of glass on a phone that you already own. Using software to prevent the use of aftermarket parts gets a big thumbs down from us. These locks are frustrating and ultimately futile—Apple simply can’t control all the repairs that happen with their products, no matter how hard they try.
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#4This has gotta be cus of pressure from EU? Like if they didnt make them more repairable it might be illegal to sell them here soon.
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#5https://valkyrie.cdn.ifixit.com/media/2022/09/18133349/iPhon...
Uh, look at that wonky Qualcomm SDR735 chip.
Actually looking at it a bit closer it seems like the board was destroyed during disassembly?
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#6Only the base model, and it's gone from bad to less bad? I can forgive that designing a phone to be easily repairable can be very hard, just as long as you don't purposely make it harder to repair, or unnecessarily expensive.
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#7This has gotta be cus of pressure from EU? Like if they didnt make them more repairable it might be illegal to sell them here soon.
Naaahhhh it's only because they wanted to.
Took a few years and a few hundred millions difficult to repair devices to get there.
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#8Odd article considering everything is still software locked to the phone. Sure it's easier to repair, but if you get your parts from anywhere else than apple's program directly, a lot of features will stop working.
Hugh Jeffreys made a video interchanging parts on two brand new iphone's and it disabled a lot of things including auto-brightness.
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#9Apple started offering home repair kits for iPhone this year, but they’re super difficult to use: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/25/technology/personaltech/a...
There’s speculation that offering the kits is an attempt to head off right-to-repair legislation. But seeing this redesign, I wonder to what degree the repair program is incentivizing repairability within apple’s corporate structure. Now that “profit/loss per self service repair” is tracked in a spreadsheet - does repairability matter more?
Anyways - it’s great to see some improvement here, for whatever motivation.
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#10This has gotta be cus of pressure from EU? Like if they didnt make them more repairable it might be illegal to sell them here soon.
The EU pressure would be in the domains of software distribution (Apple thinks third-party app stores are just malware) and charger compatibility (Apple still holds onto Lightning). They've yet to talk about either of these at all, and I wouldn't be surprised if at least one of these requirements is either geolocked or exclusive to EU models.