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When I called up iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens, I figured he\u2019d be celebrating \u2014 after years of fighting for right-to-repair, big name companies like Google<\/a> and Samsung<\/a> have suddenly agreed to provide spare parts for their phones. Not only that, they signed deals with him<\/em> to sell those parts through iFixit, alongside the company\u2019s repair guides and tools. So did Valve<\/a>.<\/p>\n
But Wiens says he\u2019s not done making deals yet. \u201cThere are more coming,\u201d he says, one as soon as a couple of months from now. (No, it\u2019s not Apple.) Motorola was actually the first to sign on<\/a> nearly four years ago. And if Apple meaningfully joins them in offering spare parts to consumers \u2014 like it promised to do by early 2022<\/a> \u2014 the era of fixing your own phone may be underway. Last October, the United States effectively made it legal to open up many devices for the purpose of repair<\/a> with an exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Now, the necessary parts are arriving.<\/p>\n
What changed? Weren\u2019t these companies fighting tooth and nail to keep right-for-repair off the table, sometimes sneakily stopping bills at the last minute<\/a>? Sure. But some legislation is getting through anyhow… and one French law in particular might have been the tipping point. <\/p>\n
\n80 percent said they\u2019d choose a more repairable device<\/q><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n\u201cThe thing that\u2019s changing the game more than anything else is the French repairability scorecard,\u201d says Wiens, referring to a 2021 law that requires tech companies to reveal how repairable their phones are \u2014 on a scale of 0.0 to 10.0 \u2014 right next to their pricetag. Even Apple was forced to add repairability scores<\/a> \u2014 but Wiens points me to this press release by Samsung<\/a> instead. When Samsung commissioned a study to check whether the French repairability scores were meaningful, it didn\u2019t just find the scorecards were handy \u2014  it found a staggering 80 percent of respondents would be willing to give up their favorite brand for a product that scored higher.<\/em><\/p>\n
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\u201cThere have been extensive studies done on the scorecard and it\u2019s working,\u201d says Wiens. \u201cIt\u2019s driving behavior, it\u2019s shifting consumer buying patterns.\u201d <\/p>\n
Stick, meet carrot. Seeing an opportunity, Wiens suggests, pushed these companies to take up iFixit on the deal.<\/p>\n
Nathan Proctor, director of the Campaign for the Right to Repair at the US Public Interest Research Group (US PIRG), still thinks the stick is primarily to thank. \u201cIt feels cheeky to say 100 percent… but none of this happens unless there\u2019s a threat of legislation.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cThese companies have known these were issues for a long time, and until we organized enough clout for it to start seeming inevitable, none of the big ones had particularly good repair programs and now they\u2019re all announcing them,\u201d Proctor notes. He draws my attention to the fact the European Parliament just voted 509-3<\/a> in favor of asking the EU to force manufacturers to make devices more repairable.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cnone of this happens unless there\u2019s a threat of legislation.\u201d<\/q><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n\u201cI think there\u2019s a growing realization and resignation that phones are going to last longer and there\u2019s nothing they can do about it,\u201d says Wiens.<\/p>\n
Google might have a financial incentive, too, Proctor admits. \u201cGoogle 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\u2019re not the dominant player.\u201d <\/p>\n
What about the practical reasons tech companies have stonewalled right-to-repair in the past, concerns about consumers accidentally puncturing their batteries or breaking their phones, and forcing the likes of Google or Samsung to handle more support calls? Wiens says they\u2019re a bit overblown. But he also claims it\u2019s why these companies chose iFixit, because his website provides repair guides and specially designed tools that make people less likely to screw up.<\/p>\nSamsung, Google, and even Valve aren\u2019t necessarily opening up the floodgates to every kind of repair, mind you. Wiens says iFixit won\u2019t be selling any boards with chips, so if your Pixel sprouts the kind of notorious bootloop issue that plagued many Nexus phones<\/a>, you\u2019ll still need Google to fix it. \u201c[Boards are] definitely something to look at, but there are supply chain challenges around making those,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n
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Importantly, the most common parts should indeed be included in iFixit\u2019s new parts caches, like official screens and batteries, and iFixit says it\u2019s committed to supporting phones even if it has to stockpile \u201clast chance\u201d components when factories quit making them. While it\u2019s difficult to forecast how many of those components they\u2019ll need, the manufacturers are helping some, sharing data with iFixit, like how many phones they\u2019ve sold.<\/p>\n
Wiens says iFixit already has hundreds of thousands of parts in an offsite warehouse, and is currently expanding as a result of these deals. Wiens won\u2019t say if tech companies are subsidizing the parts or how much you\u2019ll pay, but iFixit says it does have to buy them and will sell them at a markup.<\/p>\n
While you don\u2019t necessarily need officially sanctioned parts for every kind of repair, it sounds like there might be some perks: iFixit\u2019s repair kits will come with the same kind of pre-cut waterproofing gaskets that Google and Samsung use to properly re-seal their own phones. \u201cAs long as you do it right, get the seal all the way around, then you\u2019re good again,\u201d says Wiens. <\/p>\n
He says it\u2019s something more people should probably do once every year or two anyhow \u2014 since the adhesive that manufacturers use to waterproof their gadgets tends to wear out over time. \u201cYou do your first test in the shower and you\u2019re happy with it, that doesn\u2019t mean that three months later it\u2019ll still work in the shower,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\nRegardless of whether these companies are being pushed or led, the result might be the same: an era where your aging good-enough phone can stay good-enough for far longer than it otherwise might. Politicians, governments<\/a>, regulators<\/a>, shareholders<\/a>, and advocacy groups like US PIRG are putting on the pressure<\/a>, and it may open up opportunity as well.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf the market were to change and people hold onto phones a lot longer… eventually the companies would change and they\u2019d find a way to make more money in that environment, right?\u201d says Proctor, suggesting that a phone that lasts might be another way to get customers to stick around. \u201cI\u2019m just encouraged that those incentives are now a bit more aligned with what\u2019s better for people on the planet.\u201d <\/p>\n
I fully expect tech companies will continue to resist right-to-repair in some ways, even while pretending to embrace it. (We\u2019ve seen that from Apple before<\/a>, and Apple didn\u2019t respond to a request for comment this week about its Self Service Repair Program.) There are lots of ways for companies to screw around, like charging too much for parts or throwing up scary warnings \u2014 to its credit, Apple does seem to be backing off<\/a> on that one.<\/p>\n
And of course, they\u2019ll continue to entice you to rapidly upgrade to new phones, like how carriers brought back the subsidy model last year<\/a> to spur sales while society was still stuck at home, and how Apple is reportedly looking to sell the iPhone as a subscription service now<\/a>. <\/p>\n
But it sounds like when my iPhone mini\u2019s battery expires and there\u2019s no new mini to replace it<\/a>, I\u2019ll be able to swap the battery myself. And if not? I might take a hint and switch to a newly repairable Pixel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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