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Injured myself a few times trying to separate some of the new devices that are glued together (looking at you, Google Pixel). My Amazon Kindle's screen died try
by mmastrac 8y ago
Injured myself a few times trying to separate some of the new devices that are glued together (looking at you, Google Pixel). My Amazon Kindle's screen died trying to get the plastic bezel off it too. :(
Right to repair + repairability legislation is the double-punch we need. Apple is probably concerned that the latter will be the next step after we get the right to repair things, but we really need it.
- js2 8y agoDid you follow a guide? I didn't have any trouble with an iPhone SE, but I had an excellent ifixit guide and their toolset.
- mmastrac 8y agoFor both I did. The Google Pixel screen cracked because the safe space for prying it apart is so tiny. Kindle guides aren't as good as phone guides and didn't explain the risk of pulling apart the display layers when wedging apart the bezel. :(
- henryfjordan 8y agoI'm torn on repairability. The iphone would be worse by some metrics if it had to be designed in such a way that it would be repairable (size, for instance). So long as I can determine repairability (by looking at the service manual or similar) then I'm fine letting people decide for themselves what they want to buy. The only other argument I could see for a "repairability" law would be from an environmentalist standpoint, but I would want that law to allow a less-repairable item that was sufficiently recyclable.