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by fsflover
1809 days ago
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> I think realistically the only thing we can demand is user-replaceable battery. No. Have a look at these three modern smartphones: "IFixIt: Your Smartphone Doesn’t Have To Be Glued Shut!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCccpgposh4 |
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The fact of the matter is that customers won't buy those phones over the "premium" phones even if they are impossible to repair.
My potentially unpopular opinion (as someone that does mechanical design of electronic devices for a living) is that iFixit is actively hurting right to repair by focusing on the wrong things. They are focusing on an ideal that is never going to come to fruition because most customers won't buy a product that is worse than they have today just so they can repair it themselves. A vast majority of customers don't want to repair their own devices even if they were "easy" to repair. Rather, they should be following Louis Rossman's goal to make repair guides and parts are easily available to independent repair shops so that more people can easily have their devices fixed by 3rd party repair providers. A goal on top of that is that effectively "consumable" parts (e.g. the battery, ports), should have to be accessible without risk of damaging expensive components (i.e. you should be able to change them without removing the screens on the phone).