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The audacity is sky high.

Just check the attention to detail and care put into these manuals. The gradient blue arrows are masked by glass and alter in arrow opacities to make abundantly clear how the device is supposed to react to the force applied.

You all should have been there in the original iPhone days. I apologize to my early customers as to achieve anything close to a 'repair' meant losing a few back clips and figuring things out as you went.

iFixit is under existential threat, and it shows.

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Yes, providing well detailed manuals on how to work around Apple's hostility to repairing is a good thing. A $500 replacement part to replace a battery is not a good thing.

I'd also say that your average end user is probably still going to be breaking tabs. Applying proper force requires physical calibration; calibration takes practice.

> I'd also say that your average end user is probably still going to be breaking tabs

The average end user is not going to do the repair themselves.

Which is a relatively new phenomenon when it comes to batteries. It's only been a handful of year since I could swap them out with a couple of latches.

To be fair, batteries back then lasted a lot shorter than they do now. For my first MBP I had to buy multiple replacement batteries, for my newer ones I didn't have to do that a single time while using them much more.

Even today, replacing the batteries on a laptop from a competing manufacturer is a 10 minute job with an ordinary screwdriver. Many people can do it themselves, and if not, a computer/phone repair shop will do it for $10 (or free, if you buy the battery from them).

Example: https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Dell+Latitude+7480++Battery+Rep...

Don't forget that they also had significant wear after only a few months. HP sucked so much money out of me with replacement batteries before I switched to an MBP in 2015. I haven't bought anything from HP since, and good riddance.

Yes, they were also physically bulkier, weighed more, and substantially lower battery capacity. The last non-screwdriver replaceable MacBook Pro was 50% heavier, 50% thicker, and had a battery that was less than 50% the capacity. That difference in battery capacity matches almost exactly the user experienced battery life from the last screwdriver-free replaceable battery MacBook and the last intel laptop.

Apple has never and will never be the main Target of companies like Ifixit because the vast majority of Apple users are tech illiterate NPCs. Stop shilling for a trillion dollar company for free. At least get payed for it

Stop calling tech illiterate, NPCs. Thats some arrogance. Apple has its market, and you are free to not use the devices if you dont like em. Apple is not a monopoly in mobile phones, out of US may be a handful of countries have a significant share in Apple’s market.

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