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...We used to but the manufacturers drove all those repair shops out of business,” Kyle Wiens, chief executive of iFixit, a US-based ecommerce website that sells repair parts and publishes repair guides, told...
...iFixit Essential Electronics toolkit An essential for electronic repairs including cracked screens on smartphones....
...“I don’t think that people necessarily wanted thin at the expense of durability and repairability,” says Kevin Purdy, an iFixIt writer and right-to-repair advocate....
...Website iFixit, for example, which campaigns for “the right to repair”, was founded in 2003; last year US senator Elizabeth Warren mooted legislation to enforce such a right (for farm machinery) during her...
...But such a design could also create multiple “harmonic frequencies” which could cause electromagnetic interference with devices such as pacemakers, according to iFixit, which sells tools and manuals for...
...But even if US assembly added $50 to the cost of an iPhone, as iFixit has suggested, the company could afford to absorb it....
...This, iFixit says, is fuelling disposable culture....
...Kyle Wiens, chief executive of iFixit, made his name by tearing apart mobile phones and laptops to understand how they were built and publishing his findings in open source repair manuals....
...“After months of refusing to admit a problem, Apple is finally offering customers a fix for ‘touch disease’,” said Kyle Wiens, iFixit’s founder and chief executive....
...(FT) How to fix everything iFixit, a 14-year-old, 125-employee company with $21m in sales, promises to teach the everyday consumer how to fix all their gadgets — from toasters to iPhones....
...You’re allowed to use the software, but in the past, trying to alter it in any way (including fixing it by yourself when it breaks or patching security holes) was a form of copyright infringement. iFixit...
...Far from being confined to Samsung, the desire to do more in slimmer gadgets means “this could absolutely happen to anyone”, says Kyle Wiens, chief executive of iFixit, an online repair site for consumers...
...The culprit is its unusual metal case, which iFixit says is almost impossible to open without damaging it....
...Kyle Wiens, chief executive of iFixit, argued that good writing makes the difference between a good business and a bad business – a sale or no sale....
...Kyle Wiens, co-founder of iFixit and Dozuki, two US technology companies, says he refuses to hire people for the same reason....
...The reason is that Mr Wiens, of the repairs website iFixit, is a teardown nut. He takes fancy gizmos to bits to see how they work....
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