• TheOriginalGregToo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    They also purposely build their devices in such a way that they often can’t be economically repaired, necessitating a repurchase. Check out Louis Rossman on YouTube, he owns a repair shop and rants about it all the time.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve literally just got my phone back from a local phone repair shop (repairing my iPhone) and it’s Samsungs my repair person rants about (the Z and S models they mentioned in particular). They fixed my iPhone same day while I waited.

      Looking at iFixit scores, that seems to track. Samsungs seem to get 2/10 to 4/10, Apple get 6/10s. Google Pixel 7 seems to get slated everywhere for taking the longest to repair.

      Phones in general seem to be awful to repair but I do not see iPhones as any worse than the current trends of unrepairable flip phones or phones with flimsy components like the Pixel 7 rear camera glass.