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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…

[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…

  • erranto@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    3 years ago

    Almost everything apple does nowadays is a marketing front, repairability, privacy, not including chargers, accessories and removing the headphone jack for the sake of the environment, and more to come.

    • stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pubEnglish
      0·
      3 years ago

      I think it’s a bit dishonest to imply this is the only reason they do things.

      Privacy? I’d like to think that’s more than a marketing front considering how much data is actually worth.

      Otherwise I totally agree with you

      • r_se_random@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        3 years ago

        Actually, the whole Privacy part is one of the biggest gimmicks Apple has ever pulled.

        Sure, it doesn’t allow Meta and Google to not allow data collection, but research indicates Apple continues to collect the same amount of data. In the long run, I’m sure that Apple would also use this data to serve ads in their own way, just that they’ll call it “iAds”, and fanboys would cream their pants

        • kaba0@programming.devEnglish
          0·
          3 years ago

          Bullshit - what “research”? Apple is in no way comparable to goddamn Google and Facebook here. Their ad sector is pretty much “display my app in the AppStore search if they search for similar things” and things like that, that only uses the actual search term, and very basic stuff about the user. They can make relatively much money on that, because they artificially own the whole “Apple market”, so they don’t have any competition there. They don’t fingerprint you across the whole internet, that’s for sure.