232. Repair vs. Design
Apple has built their brand on a fanatical commitment to design, but their devices can be straight-up hostile when it comes to repair & maintenance. Maybe one leads to the other.
Links for the Curious
'Complete control': Apple accused of overpricing, restricting device repairs | CBC News - https://www.cbc.ca/news/thenational/c...
Values in Repair (Houston et al, 2016) - https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/28...
Designing for Repair? Infrastructures and Materialities of Breakdown (Rosner & Ames, 2014) - http://www.dataluna.com/moca-papers/3...
Design for repair: empowering consumers to fix the future | Guardian sustainable business - https://www.theguardian.com/sustainab...
The Mechanics of Workplace Order: Toward a Sociology of Repair (Henke, 1999) - https://www.jstor.org/stable/41035546
The Work of Repair: Gesture, Emotion and Sensual Knowledge (Dant, 2010) - https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
Making: Movement or Brand? (Bean & Rosner, 2014) - https://faculty.washington.edu/dkrosn...
The History Of Jailbreaking [Feature] | Cult of Mac - https://www.cultofmac.com/192850/the-...
Apple's Jony Ive describes "fanatical" approach to design in interview | Macworld - https://www.macworld.com/article/6707...
Jonathan Ive: Apple's goal isn't to make money | WIRED UK - https://www.wired.co.uk/article/jonat...
Apple I - Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_I
Nixing the Fix: A Workshop on Repair Restrictions | Federal Trade Commission - https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/event...
Louis keeps his middle finger high for Apple Inc! - • Louis keeps his middle finger high for App...
20 years Same dealer, same brand. Not even a cheap gold watch. - / y3bhkf
OLPC’s $100 laptop was going to change the world — then it all went wrong - The Verge - https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/16/17...