Right to Repair Big Tech Doesn’t Like DIY Repair, But Won’t Say Why In Public The most interesting thing about Tuesday’s Right to Repair hearing in Washington state was what the tech lobbyists wouldn’t say. Representatives of manufacturing and technology trade groups largely avoided answering… January 22, 2020 by Kevin Purdy
Consumer Rights When Did We Stop Owning Our Stuff? Commerce is one of the first lessons we teach our children: give money to the person at the store, and in exchange, you get a thing that is now yours.… January 21, 2020 by Kevin Purdy
iFixit How We Test the Quality of Batteries We Sell at iFixit When you buy a replacement battery for your phone or laptop, it’s crucial that the components be well-made—not just for the battery’s performance and longevity, but also for safety. We… January 15, 2020 by Whitson Gordon
iFixit A Quick Note on the CCPA and Your Data Rights On January 1, 2020, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) went into effect. Similar in some ways to Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the CCPA gives Californians important data… January 6, 2020 by Cynthia Replogle
Opinion Apple Is Bullying a Security Company with a Dangerous DMCA Lawsuit Apple has unleashed their legal juggernaut on an innovative iOS security company, and if they win their lawsuit, the damage will reverberate beyond the security community and into the world… January 2, 2020 by Kyle Wiens - iFixit
Tech News Some of Our Favorite Instagram Repair Photos from 2019 2019 has been an exciting year at iFixit! Lots of people tagged us in pictures of their repairs on Instagram—these are some of our favorite fixes we saw this year.… January 1, 2020 by Olivia Webb
Tech News The Verge: Sonos explains why it bricks old devices with ‘Recycle Mode’ December 30, 2019 by Kevin Purdy
Tech News A Decade of Repairability: How Tech Changed in the 2010s Many years ago—when the iPhone was still a twinkle in Steve Jobs’ eye—iFixit started tearing down the latest gadgets and giving them repairability scores: how easy is it to open?… December 30, 2019 by Whitson Gordon
