How iFixit Became the World’s Best iPhone Teardown Team
Motherboard: Every year there’s a race to become the first to tear down the phone, with teams from around the world flying to Australia—where it’s first released—to compete to be the first to look inside the world’s most coveted new phone. Motherboard embedded with iFixit, a California-based company whose primary mission is to make it easier for the average person to disassemble and repair their electronics, for its iPhone X teardown.
We went inside iFixit’s office, the “headquarters of the global repair movement, which features a tool laboratory and a parts library with thousands of electronics parts and disassembly tools. Then we went to Sydney, Australia, as iFixit tried to become the first team to tear down the iPhone X.
“Historically the only things that were close to the precision of what you see in an iPhone was in something like a Swiss watch.”
See also
- iFixit’s iPhone X teardown
- Phones for the people — What changes when you stop designing phones for companies and start designing them for people?
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