I doubt it. You're the sort of "looks like a duck so must be a duck" person.
I can see the pigeon through the badly applied paint...
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Here's the Massive Kit Apple Will Send to Your House So You Can Fix Your iPhone
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I doubt it. You're the sort of "looks like a duck so must be a duck" person.
I can see the pigeon through the badly applied paint...
This is a deterrent. Most enthusiast who had any intention of trying this will soon drop the idea.
Nearly, no average person was complaining about not being able to repair their iPhones. Except those that were virtue-signaling and jumping in on the argument being touted by a few companies with vested interests in criticizing Apple over RTR. Anybody that was that sensitive to price was already able to order just about any part they wanted from Chinese sources and an iFixit style tool kit to do it themselves. A repair shop that pays for the tools and OEM parts from Apple is not going to be that much cheaper than Apple on repairs unless they are cutting their labor costs. Likewise, an individual is only going to come out ahead using Apple parts and tools because they do the work for free.
I noticed once Apple announced their self-repair program almost everyone shut up about it and didn't press hard for details. Even the trade press was nearly silent about it until about a week ago despite it taking months to roll out. If you were a legit third-party repair business what this did was put a ceiling on your revenue potential and cap your profit margins. Sometimes the best way to ruin an activist's life is to give them what they want.
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This is complete junk. I just ordered a battery for my iPhone SE and all the tools I need to fix it with are a screwdriver, a suction cup, and a couple of opening picks 
This is complete junk. I just ordered a battery for my iPhone SE and all the tools I need to fix it with are a screwdriver, a suction cup, and a couple of opening picks
I know someone who got one of those and managed to set fire to their desk.
Then again they would have done that with the official repair kit as well.
I actually use my iPhone. Easy to see one of these kits taking days to deliver. Plus the time to repair and the risks. The best approach to save Big bucks, treat your iPhone as the technology device it is. Expensive and important. My iPhone 7 still in excellent condition after five years of everyday use including international travel. Money just keeps rolling in.
This is one thing that always gets me.
Someone driving a $2000 car will pay $500 for a repair bill but will complain about spending $250 on a repair for a $1000 phone.
This is Apple’s way of discouraging people from fixing their own devices. Make it as clunky and difficult as possible
Apple today announced that it has officially launched its Self Service Repair program, letting United States customers repair their iPhones from their homes. To do the repairs, Apple is offering a $49 rental kit that consists of all the tools needed to repair an iPhone 12 or iPhone 13 lineup model and the third-generation iPhone SE, and possibly unexpectedly, the kit is rather large.
On its Self Service Repair website, Apple says that the rental kits include two cases, one weighing 43 pounds and the other weighing 36 pounds. Stacked on top of each other, the cases will measure 20 inches in width and 47 inches in height. Thankfully, both cases include wheels for easy transportation.
On the website, Apple details what comes inside of each case, including a battery and display press, protective covers, and screwdrivers. For repairs of the third-generation iPhone SE, customers will only receive one case with tools designed specifically for the smaller iPhone.
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Alongside todays massive toolkit Apple also announced it is making screws with little female Apple logos on them to fix iPhones and selling a male Apple logo screwdriver to undo them for £199. You can only buy it directly from Apple but because Tim Cook held a press conference declaring them 'the best screws we've ever made' people buy them anyway and defend Apple for doing so.
So what’s to stop iFixit from getting one of these kits, figure out everything in it, then offer the same, or similar, tools for sale that you own? Then get the official parts from Apple and use your own tools.
Or am I missing something and you are required to rent one of these kits when you buy parts?
Edit: never mind, read the iPhone manual and i get it now.
Or am I missing something and you are required to rent one of these kits when you buy parts?
Edit: never mind, read the iPhone manual and i get it now.
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This is the correct answer. Before I was wiser, I took my broken screens in for repair about 6-7 years ago to a local shop. I found places with perfect 5 star reviews. In my defense, back then I lived hours from an Apple store.
Never. Not once did I get a screen that worked properly. They even offered “free repairs” if it malfunctioned within a few weeks. I went through 4 screens before I gave up. Every time it was something different — touch screen didn’t work in some places. Display wouldn’t turn on sometimes. Color calibration was way off. Etc.
And I was lucky. There are a hundred ways they could’ve damaged the phone permanently.
Everyone complaining here about the size of this has no clue how challenging it is to repair such a complex device or how shoddy the “repairs” of unofficial places can be.
Haha this is awesome, kudos for Apple for going all out on this program.
In fact, these heavy repair cases are probably what they wanted to deter people from renting them and ultimately repairing their phones due to the inconvenience.
Still cool.
are Americans so babied such that receiving a box is considered an inconvenience?
they're given the exact tools necessary to do the job. them being large is not an inconvenience.
As someone who has repaired phones for the past 12 years (I lost count at 10,000 repairs) and now I part out phones to sell, these tools are going to be a blessing. The complexity of how hard it is to take a screen off a 12 or 13 mini will make this process so much easier. Once I saw that I could buy the separation machine on it's own I was thrilled and immediately placed an order. I look at it this way, if I am removing a screen off an iphone 13 pro max that is worth $250-300 and have the possibly of damaging it my way, then purchasing a highly precise screen that will allow me to do it without damaging the screen is 100% worth it. I have probably ruined 10 out of the 200 iphone 12 and 13 screens. Even if those screens are worth $100 each and the machine and the 3 holders I needed came out to $600 shipped, then I will easily make my money back on it by not damaging screens.
This process and tools are not for even 1% of iphone owner, they are for shops that do repairs. And for anyone that says that aftermarket parts are better than OEM, I would beg to differ. There is nothing even close to OEM and that is why it is all that I sell. Aftermarket don't perform the same and are less durable.
I am excited to test the separation machine out.
This process and tools are not for even 1% of iphone owner, they are for shops that do repairs. And for anyone that says that aftermarket parts are better than OEM, I would beg to differ. There is nothing even close to OEM and that is why it is all that I sell. Aftermarket don't perform the same and are less durable.
I am excited to test the separation machine out.
That is only the case if you know what you're doing. I just replaced the battery on my phone last night. The biggest PITA part was taking the glass case off because it's frakking glued on.? Took an hour of heat gun, pry, heat gun, pry...ad nauseum. Frakking glass case.? It took only 5 minutes to do the rest.?
My wife suffers the constant purgetory of having a guy who can only adequately fix things around the house. I don't do a crappy enough job for her to want to scrap it, but it doesn't have the quality finish of a skilled tradesman. If it works, right?
Me being OCD is the reason I would WANT a professional repairing my iPhone, not I. Depending on the complexity of the repair, of course.
That is quite the pile of equipment. I'm surprised that Apple is actually willing to rent it out considering how expensive it all is.
Do you get to keep the kit? $49 dollars for what looks to be 2 pelican like cases is a pretty good deal on its own.
Lot's of issues with this comparison.
1) The defense sector is a small market, highly customized industry. That has almost no comparison to the industry Apple is in.
2) Defense sector companies are notorious for using as much proprietary stuff as possible to (a) raise the cost and therefore price of the product, and (b) making products difficult to repair so that they get paid for the repairs themselves.
Most reputed repair shops do an excellent job. In fact, almost all of them do a better job than Apple, which is not surprising considering Apple also uses 3rd party companies to repair Apple products, and unlike local repair stores, whose businesses are built on the reputations they build on Yelp, etc., the companies Apple outsources their devices to have no such fear of customer dissatisfaction.
The reason repair shops have started having a hard time are software based locks that Apple has been implementing which requires Apple to enable the device if a part is replaced, even if the replacement is a genuine Apple part.
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I used to manage a PSP (premium service provider), who decided to drop the "partnership." I imagine now they would rent and not return the kit. Apple does not list the kits replacement cost, but I would guess $1500-2k. Might be worth it, even to replace with non OEM parts.
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