Wow, did they actually go to Asia to buy the iPhone5 so that they'd be the first ones to post the teardown? (it seems that there are a few sites that compete in this teardown/BOM space)
When I want to find out what screwdrivers I need to open my MacBook, the first thing I think of is iFixit – oh, and hey, turns out I need a screwdriver I don’t have at home and they are selling it.
I think being the ultimate teardown website is worth a lot of money for them. I’m honestly not even sure how some small website selling repair tools could get that kind of exposure and attention any other way.
I think that is a symptom of a larger problem to be honest. Odd screws don't stop tampering, they just cost you lots of money to tamper. Why bother? this is another circumvention industry that doesn't really need to exist.
My Lenovo can be stripped bare and reassembled with a Swiss army knife in a few minutes and not much effort or head scratching.
For reference, Lenovo have a web site which SHOWS you how to take your stuff to bits:
I couldn’t care less. That is one aspect I do not even consider when making a purchase decision. Sorry, I hope that doesn’t offend you :-)
But that wasn’t really what I was talking about, now was it? Your ideology might be showing if you make completely off-topic comments and free associate once something comes up your ideology tells you you should care deeply about.
Yeah, it's an Australian $2 coin in one of the photos. I'm quite surprised that being ~16 hours ahead of the competition is worth an airfare to Australia but impressed nonetheless.
Being the teardown site brings a lot of traffic and business. I know I go there first when I want to know how to tear apart stuff, and I bought my small drivers kit from them.
