List of quotes attributed to ifixit:

Many product manufacturers support their customers by making repair information available, selling service parts [i.e., replacement parts], and encouraging a network of independent repair professionals who can work on their products. In the electronics world, you get the exact opposite. Planned obsolescence is built into these products, and the manufacturers are doing everything they can to stifle customers [who want to repair their products]. I think they’re behaving in a shortsighted, consumer-hostile way that is costing them money in terms of service parts, repair services, and more. So iFixit comes along and provides the services they should have been offering in the first place."

Meta-Actor: Journalism

Source Document: http://earth911.com/eco-tech/fixit-e-waste/

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"We’ve (ifixit) been saying all along that the electronics manufacturers are in opposition to everyone else in the world—the recyclers, the repair centers, the consumers. And manufacturers have taken some steps in recent years proving that is concretely true.

Nikon, for instance, has systematically shut down over 3,000 camera shops around the country by refusing to provide parts and tools. Apple is designing products that are clearly designed to be unprofitable to recycle. There’s absolutely no way anyone can profitably recycle iPads, and Apple isn’t being called out for it. IPads are the new CRTs. 

Meta-Actor: Journalism

Source Document: http://earth911.com/eco-tech/fixit-e-waste/