But they do sell them, and there are links throughout the article to buy them. You seem to be ignoring certain facts here. They also sell parts, which after a while I imagine will show up on their site for sale (look at the Fiarphone 1, they sell basically every part of the phone). How about this:
How about if MacRumors was paid by Apple to post a positive review of the iPad Pro? That's not going to make MacRumors rich either, but would that be acceptable?
iFixit didn't receive money for the teardown they received money for co-authoring the repair manual and they give full disclosure. Maybe in an ideal world they shouldn't receive money to co-author a repair manual, but if you have any idea what iFixit stands for, they push for repairable/standardized products not just for commercial reasons but for the reasons we all value, less disposable products, less earth waste, more life, more value. You have to remember these are the same guys that criticized Apple vehemently for coming up with a Pentalobe screw (the ones used in iPhones) and yet were among the first to sell Pentalobe screwdrivers.
Do you prefer to distrust iFixit and defend Apple? Go ahead. But please don't act like we should all circle jerk and ridicule iFixit when we have Apple soldering SSD and RAM on 2015 iMacs for planned obsolescence and profit greed.
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