Apple, a business well-known for making its items hard to fix, has actually provided us an actual head-scratcher of a repair service scenario with its next-generation streaming remote.
Moot right here are a set of screws that would certainly show up to make fixing semi-straightforward yet definitely do not. iFixit took apart the second-generation Siri Remote, which will certainly deliver with the current Apple television 4K streaming box, as well as discovered that these 2 screws outside of the remote do primarily absolutely nothing. Do not, to put it simply, anticipate to be able to repair your brand-new remote or its battery conveniently.
First Of All, Apple’s brand-new stick includes a one-piece light weight aluminum external housing style– implying that while very little as well as quite, this point was most likely currently mosting likely to confirm hard to dabble with. You may assume, for that reason, that a set of little screws at the end of the remote near its billing port would certainly supply simple accessibility to the important things probably to require to be fixed on this remote: the battery. You would certainly be incorrect.
Rather, iFixit’s video clip teardown showed that the little plate that covers its Lightning port– an additional Siri Remote wrong, if I’m being sincere– efficiently goes no place. To get in the remote, iFixit required to make use of a handful of specialized devices to stand out off the switches on the remote, eliminate even more little screws as well as little part, twitch the remote’s internal framework out of its light weight aluminum covering, loosen the reasoning board from the remote’s skeletal system, as well as ultimately, bulge the 1.52 Wh battery. Oh, as well as its wires are soldered along with those of the Lightning port, making do it yourself repair work even more hard.
Is the absence of straightforward repairability on the next-generation Siri Remote totally unexpected? Well, no. Obviously not. Fixing the first-generation Siri stick was in a similar way a whole entire point. Apple is additionally well-known for lobbying versus right-to-repair regulations, has actually been revealed to be inside clashed concerning its very own setting on the issue, as well as has actually utilized bad-faith disagreements to protect itself from objection concerning just how hard its items are to deal with, especially where it connects to exclusive part as well as fixing directions.
But also for a remote with a rechargeable battery, Apple certain makes it hard to really act as well as gain access to among the important things probably to require substitute in the future. As well as deceiving us with a set of screws that do bit for repairability does not precisely curry support on the fixing front, either.
