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25 year-old's company makes millions on cracked iPhone screens [video]

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Re: 25 year-old's company makes millions on cracked iPhone screens [video]

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Post by tossemup »

Bad haircuts and/or personal grooming choices/skills.

AJ looked better with short and tattered. He's got thin strands, so anything of length is going to do battle with his face shape.

David Tisch needs to keep it short in the back and around the side and NEVER part in the middle. Maybe a flop off to the side with his curls and desire for length. He should probably just go short and add character with facial hair and/or glasses.

tossmeup: Style advice to the technorati...

Also, top-line, aggregated metrics mean nothing in a well-trod area like repair services. House calls (geek squad) and revenue per customer would be far more interesting. Media types are blithering idiots.

350 techs in 11 countries? What's the rate of cracks per 10,000 iPhones in use? What's the distribution of those in larger markets and what is the relative density of techs per 100 cracked units? What's average turnaround time? Are techs employees or contractors? etc. etc. Do they really think they can beat, via marketing, the people in every major town who do this for a good bit cheaper?

Re: 25 year-old's company makes millions on cracked iPhone screens [video]

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Post by aliston »

hippich wrote: post #17
namuol wrote: post #12

It's pretty easy to do. My sister just gave me her old cracked iPhone 4 because she thought it was worthless. It still worked fine, but I fixed the screen for about $30 and a few hours of sweaty-palm dis/assembly. Works perfectly now.

i believe iphone 4s and 5 have welded glass or something making it much harder to replace alone. as a result usually they replace lcd+glass which make it much more expensive.

You can generally buy the digitizer + lcd on ebay for about 30 bucks. It's a lot of small screws, but really not too difficult to swap out. Took me about 45 minutes.

Re: 25 year-old's company makes millions on cracked iPhone screens [video]

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Post by [deleted] »

randomdrake wrote: post #20
abhiv wrote: post #19

Genuinely curious about how this is a venture-funded company. How is this scalable? Is there any tech involved at all? (Not that technology is necessary to be venture-funded, but it helps with nonlinear growth.)

We believe that this is absolutely scalable as we've watched successful growth into national and international markets. On the technology front, we have created an incredible on demand geolocational dispatch and communications service. Our unique iOS app for our worldwide iTechs empowers them to be connected to this service at all times allowing them to successfully run their businesses. We're really doing some prett…

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Re: 25 year-old's company makes millions on cracked iPhone screens [video]

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Post by hemancuso »

Interestingly - in the past few weeks the Genius Bar in most locations (I can confirm boston/cambridge) has gotten a calibration machine letting them do a screen replacement in store for $150 (cheaper and done by apple). Refurb is $229.

Tough to compete with that.

http://gizmodo.com/the-apple-stores-new-mystery-machine-help...

Re: 25 year-old's company makes millions on cracked iPhone screens [video]

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Post by akg_67 »

abhiv wrote: post #19

Genuinely curious about how this is a venture-funded company. How is this scalable? Is there any tech involved at all? (Not that technology is necessary to be venture-funded, but it helps with nonlinear growth.)

It is just a PR piece to get attention of potential funding sources. As I mentioned previously in my comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5272017, I don't believe numbers add up. Business is unlikely to be scalable or around in next 5 years.

Re: 25 year-old's company makes millions on cracked iPhone screens [video]

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Post by ibz »

I was traveling in Laos last year and I fell while riding a scooter through the jungle and my iPhone cracked. As I reached Cambodia, I walked in a random phone repair shop in Phnom Penh and had my screen completely replaced in 10 minutes for about $40 (probably overcharged for being a tourist). Still using that same iPhone now, one year later. I would imagine phone repair shops everywhere can do this, or not? While watching the video, I almost felt like watching The Onion.

Re: 25 year-old's company makes millions on cracked iPhone screens [video]

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Post by gkoberger »

martin_ wrote: post #7
jpdoctor wrote: post #3

They can augment their income by fixing broken power buttons, which is a growing problem that Apple refuses to touch: https://discussions.apple.com/message/22136029#22136029

iCracked repairs almost every aspect of an iDevice including power buttons!

How? I don't see the power button option on the site.

[EDIT] Seems martin_ meant you can buy a new button/sensor and a repair kit, and then follow instructions similar to these: http://www.imore.com/how-diy-repair-stuck-or-broken-iphone-4...

Re: 25 year-old's company makes millions on cracked iPhone screens [video]

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Post by martin_ »

gkoberger wrote: post #29
martin_ wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

iCracked repairs almost every aspect of an iDevice including power buttons!

How? I don't see the power button option on the site. [EDIT] Seems martin_ meant you can buy a new button/sensor and a repair kit, and then follow instructions similar to these: http://www.imore.com/how-diy-repair-stuck-or-broken-iphone-4...

The issue selection is definitely limited. An "other" category would be a good idea!
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