iFixit

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iFixit
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Repair instructions and tool sales
languages Chinese, German, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Korean
operator iFixit , San Luis Obispo , California , United States
On-line 2003
https://de.ifixit.com/

iFixit is a website operated by a US company of the same name, which is known for its teardowns , among other things . It's a wiki- based website that shows how to repair IT equipment, household appliances, vehicles, and more. Anyone can create repair instructions for a device here, and everyone can edit and improve existing instructions. Tools and IT spare parts are also sold on the website .

history

iFixit was founded in 2003 in San Luis Obispo by California Polytechnic State University students Kyle Wiens and Luke Soules. The idea arose when the founders wanted to repair a defective iBook and no repair instructions were available. With their website they want to ensure that as many people as possible can repair their technical devices themselves and are providing their own instructions for this. The portal achieved national recognition through the publication of the dismantling of new cell phones and tablets shortly after they appeared - so-called teardowns. New Apple devices are preferred . The founders also fly to Australia for the start of sales to purchase a new device there and be the first to document it in the teardown. Because of the time zones , Apple's new devices will start selling first in Australia.

The repair instructions are published under a Creative Commons license (CC-BY-NC-SA). Together with Greenpeace , iFixit regularly examines electronics to determine how many dangerous chemicals are contained in the products, whether raw materials can be recycled and how easily the technical devices can be repaired. In cooperation with the Fraunhofer Institute IZM and other participants, iFixit is involved in setting up the CloseWEEE Recycler Information Center database.

In 2011, iFixit and Dozuki created a SaaS platform for the creation of technical documentation and repair instructions , which was used by O'Reilly and Make: at an early stage .

IFixit has had a German branch in Stuttgart since 2013, from which it ships to 30 European countries. At the beginning of 2017, an iFixit store in the style of a repair café was also operated in the Stuttgart Fluxus Mall.

In April 2014, iFixit entered into a cooperation with Fairphone . In 2014, iFixit and the Microsoft Registered Refurbisher Program started their collaboration in the Pro Tech Network to support small repair shops that refurbish used hardware for further use.

Due to the publication of an open Apple TV before the start of sales in 2015, iFixit removed the Apple developer access and thus also the provider access for the app store in which the developers had published an app . Since then there is no longer an iOS app for iFixit.

Teardown

Teardown literally means to tear down , in the sense of destroy or dismantle something . All individual parts of a technical device become visible. iFixit has been using this term since at least 2007 for the step-by-step presentation of dismantled devices. Detailed photos and x-rays are taken, the dismantling steps are described and the installed parts are identified. At the end of the investigation, iFixit awards a point grade from 1 to 10 to assess the repairability, which is called the reparability index. Devices that are very easy to repair receive 10 points. In a conclusion, iFixit goes into particularities that distinguish the examined device from others.

The Fairphone 2 achieved an index of 10, the Microsoft Surface Laptop an index of 0 (irreparable).

International magazines and online media regularly use the results of the research in their articles and refer to the teardown.

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Individual evidence

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  13. ^ Daniel Bachfeld: Repair page iFixit with German shop. In: heise.de. Make, October 25, 2013, accessed November 15, 2017 .
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  16. ↑ Peter Lacy, Jakob Rutqvist, Philipp Buddemeier: Value creation instead of waste: The future belongs to the circular economy . Redline Wirtschaft, 2015, ISBN 978-3-86414-747-0 , p. 110 ( preview in Google Book search).
  17. ↑ Pedro Hernandez: Microsoft, iFixit Want Entrepreneurs to Give New Life to Old Gadgets. In: eweek.com. August 10, 2014, accessed November 15, 2017 .
  18. ↑ Ben Schwan: Because of Apple TV teardown: Apple throws iFixIt from the App Store. In: heise.de. October 1, 2015, accessed November 15, 2017 .
  19. ↑ teardown In: wiktionary , accessed November 15, 2017.
  20. ↑ Christian Wölbert: iFixit: Fairphone 2 receives full points. In: heise.de. November 19, 2015, accessed November 15, 2017 .
  21. ↑ Vera Bauer: Failed: Surface Laptop scores 0 out of 10 with iFixit. In: mobilegeeks.de. June 17, 2017. Retrieved November 15, 2017 .
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