This post is disappointing. You clearly don't care about the internals of your computer, and that's fine, but other people want to know what is in it and which parts they can replace and which parts they can't. It's good to know what you are getting for your money, not everyone wants to think of it like a "magic" box or something.
Not once have I seen iFixIt's attitude be about "the public's right to know" it is more them doing a service to other people who want to know the information like I just mentioned above.
Helping rival manufacturers? WHAT??? Are you crazy? Do you not realize that the second a product is released on the market any manufacturer can pick it up and do exactly what iFixIt did? In fact even despite iFixIt they might do it themselves so they can inspect individual components with their top engineering teams.
You really have no clue at all how the computer industry works, or how competition works. The way manufacturers compete is not by trying to hide the internals of their products after it's out, they do it by trying to hide the ENTIRE product BEFORE it is out. Once it's out the door, it's free game, and EVERY company knows that. That's why they have something called patents, to protect their inventions even after they are out on the market.
