ono@lemmy.ca to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year agoWe Are Retroactively Dropping the iPhone’s Repairability Score | iFixit Newswww.ifixit.comexternal-linkmessage-square31fedilinkarrow-up1166arrow-down10
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minus-squareJordan Lund@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·1 year agoI don’t get the surprise… Apple has ALWAYS been like this. They don’t want “normies” screwing around with their gear. Heck, you needed a case cracker tool to open the OG Macintosh machines, they were specifically engineered to keep people out. https://archive.org/details/mac_Mac_case_cracker_instructions_box_198x
minus-squareagent_flounder@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoTrue but the Mac G4, especially, was an absolute dream to work on. So I don’t agree they remained this way.
I don’t get the surprise… Apple has ALWAYS been like this. They don’t want “normies” screwing around with their gear.
Heck, you needed a case cracker tool to open the OG Macintosh machines, they were specifically engineered to keep people out.
https://archive.org/details/mac_Mac_case_cracker_instructions_box_198x
True but the Mac G4, especially, was an absolute dream to work on. So I don’t agree they remained this way.