05-25-2022, 06:43 PM
Lew Zealand wrote:
[quote=zachdog]
[quote=Acer]
The right to repair should not be about access to ridiculously specialized tools. It should be about design decisions that don't require ridiculously specialized tools where they can be avoided.
THIS.
Apple makes beautiful products.
But the simplicity of the iPhone 4 has been lost.
Repairing those models was a BREEZE.
???
Have you replaced the screen in an iPhone 4?
I did one about 3 years ago and you had to entirely disassemble the phone. The screen came out dead last. Not user friendly at all.
I stand corrected. Yes, it was the back that was easy to remove. And yes, they weren’t waterproof. But they were easily serviced without 75 pounds of specialty tools.