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[ifixit] We Are Retroactively Dropping the iPhone’s Repairability Score::We need to have a serious chat about iPhone repairability. We judged the phones of yesteryear by how easy they were to take apart—screws, glues, how hard it was…

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[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago

Apple puts weird DRM on everything.

They even have DRM on the Hall Effect sensor that detects when the lids closed on their newer laptops, so you cant take one from one laptop and put it in another.

The fucking hall effect sensors.

Its nothing but a fancy magnet that turns your screen off when you close the lid, a thing that costs pennies, and they had to engineer their own version to have DRM and bullshit.

[-] cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 4 points 1 year ago

Apple would DRM the battery cells and the chassis if they could.

[-] pineapplepizza@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago
[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Apple branded electrons, Straight from your Apple branded generator! Exclusively for Apple products!

[-] SirEDCaLot@lemmy.fmhy.net 2 points 1 year ago

Um, isn't that exactly what MFi (Made For iPhone) did with branded or licensed chargers and cables?

[-] ApexHunter@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Think different!

this post was submitted on 20 Sep 2023
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