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You seem to have some gripe with iFixit itself - the article just points out that iFixit has reverse-engineered some of these techniques and makes them availabl

by yborg 8y ago

You seem to have some gripe with iFixit itself - the article just points out that iFixit has reverse-engineered some of these techniques and makes them available to the public unlike the many undoubtedly skilled professional repair companies who have a vested interest in making sure the public is as ignorant as possible. This makes it impossible to show other such examples; how this becomes "regurgitating iFixit PR" is unclear to me.

urda 8y ago
Based on the comment history GP has some axe to grind with iFixit. I don't get why they dislike iFixit, as the guides they put out are high quality and well suited for their target demographic. Not everything has to be geared to the super-knowledgeable reader, especially things like repair guides for consumer electronics.
- ryanlol 8y ago
  >Based on the comment history GP has some axe to grind with iFixit. Their actual comment history doesn't seem to reflect this https://hn.algolia.com/?query=jdietrich%20ifixit&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=all https://hn.algolia.com/?query=jdietrich%20ifixit&sort=byPopu...
jdietrich 8y ago
As I said, iFixit provide a useful service and do cool stuff. If you know absolutely nothing about electronics repair, they will show you enough to perform basic repairs with a reasonable degree of confidence. They publish repair guides in order to sell more tools. I have absolutely no qualms with their business model. It's a positive, socially beneficial way of making a living. My objection is with journalists who uncritically describe iFixit as experts. iFixit are not experts on consumer electronics or electronics repair. They are well-meaning amateurs who run a tool shop and have a media budget. If a professional technology journalist is unable to discern this, then that is indicative of a profound malaise within journalism. Every time Apple launch a piece of hardware, iFixit get a huge amount of SEO juice from technology news websites linking to their teardown. Why is literally nobody in the media doing it themselves? iFixit have taken on an outsized role in technology journalism, because the overwhelming majority of technology journalists simply do not have the knowledge to take apart a piece of technology and say anything meaningful about what they see inside. That is most certainly not the fault of iFixit.

by yborg 8y ago

urda 8y ago

Based on the comment history GP has some axe to grind with iFixit. I don't get why they dislike iFixit, as the guides they put out are high quality and well suited for their target demographic. Not everything has to be geared to the super-knowledgeable reader, especially things like repair guides for consumer electronics.

ryanlol 8y ago
>Based on the comment history GP has some axe to grind with iFixit. Their actual comment history doesn't seem to reflect this https://hn.algolia.com/?query=jdietrich%20ifixit&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=all https://hn.algolia.com/?query=jdietrich%20ifixit&sort=byPopu...

jdietrich 8y ago

As I said, iFixit provide a useful service and do cool stuff. If you know absolutely nothing about electronics repair, they will show you enough to perform basic repairs with a reasonable degree of confidence. They publish repair guides in order to sell more tools. I have absolutely no qualms with their business model. It's a positive, socially beneficial way of making a living. My objection is with journalists who uncritically describe iFixit as experts. iFixit are not experts on consumer electronics or electronics repair. They are well-meaning amateurs who run a tool shop and have a media budget. If a professional technology journalist is unable to discern this, then that is indicative of a profound malaise within journalism. Every time Apple launch a piece of hardware, iFixit get a huge amount of SEO juice from technology news websites linking to their teardown. Why is literally nobody in the media doing it themselves? iFixit have taken on an outsized role in technology journalism, because the overwhelming majority of technology journalists simply do not have the knowledge to take apart a piece of technology and say anything meaningful about what they see inside. That is most certainly not the fault of iFixit.