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iPhone internals are difficult to repair, but they make up for it with reliability. If OLPC had hit that target they could have been successful but it was basic

iPhone internals are difficult to repair, but they make up for it with reliability. If OLPC had hit that target they could have been successful but it was basically not achievable for a mid-2000s laptop.

Gigachad 5y ago
The iphone isn't actually that hard to repair. If you have the parts and the tools, almost all the parts can be replaced pretty quickly. The problem is a lot of the parts that tend to fail like a screen replacement or water damage to the main board cost as much in parts as the phone is worth. Which in a way makes sense because the screen and main board make up pretty much all the value of the phone. The nice thing is they have come a very long way in terms of battery replacements. You can get it done by apple for quite cheap and soon you will be able to buy the battery officially. But improving phone repairability wouldn't really do much for poor communities because it is more economical for them to just buy one of the dirt cheap working phones on the second hand market. You would never bother to fix an iphone 5 for example when you can get another working one for almost free.
- noizejoy 5y ago
  > The problem is a lot of the parts that tend to fail like a screen replacement or water damage to the main board cost as much in parts as the phone is worth. The problem is a lot of the parts that tend to fail like a $part cost as much in parts as the $device is worth. A general problem leading to too much stuff into garbage. Anyone coming up with a beneficial solution to this general problem might just win themselves a Nobel Prize.
- ClumsyPilot 5y ago
  The 'problem' is that Apple forbids their suppliers from selling any parts to consumers or repairmen in order to charge exorbitant sums. And if you do find alternative parts and offer repair services to the public they prosecute you and destroy your life https://repair.eu/news/apple-crushes-one-man-repair-shop/ https://repair.eu/news/apple-crushes-one-man-repair-shop/

Gigachad 5y ago

The iphone isn't actually that hard to repair. If you have the parts and the tools, almost all the parts can be replaced pretty quickly. The problem is a lot of the parts that tend to fail like a screen replacement or water damage to the main board cost as much in parts as the phone is worth. Which in a way makes sense because the screen and main board make up pretty much all the value of the phone. The nice thing is they have come a very long way in terms of battery replacements. You can get it done by apple for quite cheap and soon you will be able to buy the battery officially. But improving phone repairability wouldn't really do much for poor communities because it is more economical for them to just buy one of the dirt cheap working phones on the second hand market. You would never bother to fix an iphone 5 for example when you can get another working one for almost free.

noizejoy 5y ago
> The problem is a lot of the parts that tend to fail like a screen replacement or water damage to the main board cost as much in parts as the phone is worth. The problem is a lot of the parts that tend to fail like a $part cost as much in parts as the $device is worth. A general problem leading to too much stuff into garbage. Anyone coming up with a beneficial solution to this general problem might just win themselves a Nobel Prize.
ClumsyPilot 5y ago
The 'problem' is that Apple forbids their suppliers from selling any parts to consumers or repairmen in order to charge exorbitant sums. And if you do find alternative parts and offer repair services to the public they prosecute you and destroy your life https://repair.eu/news/apple-crushes-one-man-repair-shop/ https://repair.eu/news/apple-crushes-one-man-repair-shop/