iFixit won over Google, Samsung and Valve. Who’s next?
instead. When Samsung commissioned a study to check whether the French repairability scores were meaningful, it didn’t just find the scorecards were handy — it found a staggering
Nathan Proctor, director of the Campaign for the Right to Repair at the US Public Interest Research Group , still thinks the stick is primarily to thank. “It feels cheeky to say 100 percent... but none of this happens unless there’s a threat of legislation.” Google might have a financial incentive, too, Proctor admits. “Google is a huge, huge company, but their Pixel phone sales are not a big part of the market, right? Some of the carrot is they can do something about a really popular anti-trust, anti-monopoly issue in an area where they’re not the dominant player.”
, you’ll still need Google to fix it. “[Boards are] definitely something to look at, but there are supply chain challenges around making those,” he says.Importantly, the most common parts should indeed be included in iFixit’s new parts caches, like official screens and batteries, and iFixit says it’s committed to supporting phones even if it has to stockpile “last chance” components when factories quit making them.
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