Re:Apple Shipped Me a 79-Pound iPhone Repair Kit to Fix a 1....
by wfhordie on Saturday May 21, 2022 @08:00PM
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>They were engineered to be hard to repair, that's the whole point.
This doesn’t make sense for two reasons.
(1)Apple is on the hook to repair iPhones under AppleCare+ warranties. This means “engineering for hard to repair” goes against their own interests.
(2) The fellows in Shenzhen, Guangzho, Shanghai, and Hong Kong have no problem repairing all kinds of damage to iPhones for <$20 USD. So if Apple is designing these to be difficult to repair it they are doing a terrible job.
This assumes iPhones just happen to be the way they are. The need of this extravagant display is because of how iPhones were engineered in the first place.
They were engineered to be hard to repair, that's the whole point.
Apple and any other company need to stop making products that are hard to repair, they need to be forced to do so otherwise they will most likely never do it willingly.