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 basi

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.