iFixit & Samsung Break Up: What You Need to Know

iFixit announced it will no longer work with Samsung to bring consumers genuine Samsung parts and repair guides. You might think that sounds like iFixit is throwing in the towel on Right to Repair, but that's not the case at all. Especially when you find out about Samsung's restrictive repair shop contracts!
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[@saturnotaku]

"The part prices were so costly that many consumers opted to replace their devices rather than repair them." - And there it is.

[@jonnyspeed8974]

So every phone manufacturer does this, not just Apple? What a shock :-/

[@lordzed83]

ur been under rock ??

[@jonnyspeed8974]

@@lordzed83 Learn to sarcasm

[@zeexiii]

Thank you. Everyone justshit on Apple, but now we see every other company isthe same.

[@jeikWazTaken]

So they ask 400 Euros for a battery that costs 50$ on the likes of AliExpress, are well aware that they are scalping, people don't buy their overpriced parts and then they say "Oh, gee, people are just not interested in repairing things on their own. :(". This is malicious compliance. This way if anyone tries to sue, they say "But we offer parts, we have no idea what you are talking about!" despite going out of their way to intentionally inflate part prices so people would give up on self-repair and buy a new unit. There should be legal consequences like "We made a rule, you tried to circumvent/pervert it like snakes, here's a big fat punishment that is equal to 30% of your top earning year within the last 5 years.". I'd like to see any company try to pull such BS after seeing one of them getting scorched like that. And if the USA and Europe do that at the same time, companies won't be able to cry how they are "opressed and forced to pull out of the region". Hit them where it hurts and they will behave, and do it globally.

[@ARUchannel1]

basically samsung prefers charging people too much

[@Snorlaxiian]

That's the whole point of being a business; profit. It's just gone too far with things like skimp-flation, shrink-flation and if you ask me it all comes down to these major corporations are working to consolidate their power so they have absolute power and the people who actually care about repair aren't enough compared to the majority of other people who will either gladly buy a new device or begrudgingly buy a new device instead of fighting alongside the right-to-repair movement.

[@Vamanos46]

I agree in general, BUT - In samsungs defense specifically in regard to battery glued to the display, the battery heat will be dissipated out of the device better than any other way.

[@anoraker]

Except iFixit isn't having this fight with Google for its Pixel parts... and even Apple doesn't insist on selling you a battery with a display glued to it in its self repair program. If that's the only way for Samsung to dissipate heat that's well... a bad design.

[@sammahasona]

Glad iFixit broke up instead of changing their approach. Shame on Samsung and all the big companies.

[@psychomaniac189]

3:24 why would you even do that if you already replaced it the 1st time? wouldnt you just replace it yourself a 2nd time???

[@anoraker]

The idea is: Your phone's display wasn't working so you took it to shop A. Shop A offered a cheap replacement screen, because it wasn't made by Samsung. That's all they have, and even though you might have preferred a display made by Samsung, you don't mind saving money and you need a working phone, so you said yes. Later, your phone's camera isn't working, but good news, a new place opened up and actually purchases repair parts from Samsung. So you head to Shop B to get your camera repaired, because hey, even if it's a third party place, if it's buying parts for repair direct from Samsung, that's probably better right? Well according to the Samsung Repair parts contract, when Shop B goes to repair your camera, as soon as it notices your "unofficial" yet perfectly working display... they're to stop work on your camera, and take your phone apart, removing the display you paid to have put in. Then they're required to give all your personal information they've collected to Samsung and report that you had the nerve to get your phone repaired with non-Samsung parts. How does this sound to you?

[@psychomaniac189]

@@anoraker that makes sense. That would suck when the 2nd store found the 3rd party part and then dismantled it.

[@sharonb.9128]

Great video. I’m sorry but iFixit does not come out of this “breakup” looking good. After hearing your long list of anti consumer practices by Samsung, iFixit looks like it protected Samsung from well deserved criticism. All while making Apple the poster-child for “right to repair” anger.