Self Repair - Right to repair
- Freeing Ourselves From The Clutches Of Big Techwww.noemamag.com Freeing Ourselves From The Clutches Of Big Tech | NOEMA
Right to repair and other efforts to liberate technology from monopolistic corporations is a precondition for winning many vital societal battles.
- Design for repairinteractionmagic.com The last design you'll ever make
Designing from cradle to grave is no longer good enough. We need to postpone that grave as long as possible. This is how to design for a right to repair.
- This shouldn't be news but... Apple now lets you repair your own iPhonewww.xda-developers.com Apple now lets you repair your own iPhone
Apple will finally allow individuals to order genuine repair parts and tools for their iPhones. Macs will follow later on.
Following heavy criticism regarding anti-repair practices on the iPhone 13 lineup, Apple has just announced its Self Service Repair program. The company shared earlier that it wouldn’t be disabling Face ID after third-party screen repairs, after online outrage. The Cupertino giant is now taking an unexpected step further and making repairs easily accessible to individuals.
In a newsroom post, Apple has stated that iPhone 12 and iPhone 13 users will be able to order genuine spare parts and tools to repair their own iPhones. The move is unprecedented by Apple, but it’s most definitely a welcome one that will help dodge anti-trust lawsuits.
Clearly, without lawsuits and pressure groups, this would never have changed. Whilst I really love some of what Apple does (very long software update cycles, the best health smartwatch, etc) there is also a lot I really dislike (a crippled Shortcuts app, iCloud web apps that lack features, Photos is dismal compared to Google Photos, etc). So this is yet another incremental improvement (like widgets, 3rd party keyboards and browsers, copy-and-paste, etc that eventually arrived).
See https://www.xda-developers.com/apple-now-lets-you-repair-your-own-iphone/
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