iFixit Lowers iPhone 14's Repairability Score Due to Apple's Parts Pairing Requirement
iFixit Lowers iPhone 14's Repairability Score Due to Apple's Parts Pairing Requirement
Repair website iFixit today announced that it has retroactively lowered its iPhone 14 repairability score from 7/10 to 4/10 due to Apple's...
Repair website iFixit today announced that it has retroactively lowered its iPhone 14 repairability score from 7/10 to 4/10 due to Apple's post-repair parts pairing requirement, just over a year after the device launched.
"Although we enthusiastically awarded it a solid score at launch last year, thanks to its innovative repair-friendly architecture—of which we remain big fans—the reality for folks trying to fix these things has been very different," said iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens, in a blog post. "Most major repairs on modern iPhones require Apple approval. You have to buy parts through their system, then have the repair validated via a chat system. Otherwise, you'll run into limited or missing functionality, with a side of annoying warnings."
valid.
- "Now im not buying it" said no apple user ever 🤣
How does this score with the new repairability requires in ie France or California?
I have watched videos of people who repair their own iPhones using this program, and some of them have to go through a process afterwards to get the new parts paired, which sometimes takes over an hour.
This should honestly lower it to a 1/10.
Parts being available doesn't really matter if you have to go through a process to pair the parts after, which uses some kind of server + human support line, that Apple can shut down at any time.
It's essentially an "always online" DRM for REPAIRING YOUR PHONE.