iFixit

iFixit
Private
Founded 2003
Headquarters San Luis Obispo, California
Key people
 Kyle Wiens, CEO
Luke Soules, CXO
Website ifixit.com
iFixit.com
Alexa rank 2,554 (September 2016)[1]
Users 1,200,000[2]
Content license
 Creative Commons BY-NC-SA[3]

iFixit is a private company in San Luis Obispo, California. Founded in 2003 while the founders were attending Cal Poly, the company sells repair parts and publishes free wiki-like online repair guides for consumer electronics and gadgets on its web site.[4] The company is also known for their "teardowns" of consumer devices. [5]

iFixit product teardowns of new Apple products are carried[6] by PC World,[7] the Mac Observer,[8] NetworkWorld[9] and other publications.[10]

Founder Kyle Wiens aims to reduce electronic waste by teaching people to repair their own gear[11] and offering tools, parts, and a forum to discuss repairs.[12] In 2011, he travelled through Africa with a documentary team; a short film is in progress [13] and stories of "fixers" met on the trip are posted on the company's activism-oriented blog, ifixit.org.[14][15]

iFixit provides a SaaS platform known as Dozuki to enable others to use iFixit's documentation framework to produce their own documentation. An early adopter was O'Reilly Media, whose Make and Craft magazines use Dozuki to feature community guides alongside instructions originally written by the staff for the print magazine.[16]

In September 2015, Apple removed the iFixit app from the App Store in reaction to the company's publication of a teardown of a developer pre-release version of the Apple TV (4th generation) obtained under Apple's Developer Program violating a signed Non-Disclosure Agreement and as such their developer account was suspended.[9] iFixit has since worked on developing a more user friendly mobile site so mobile users can still access iFixit.

Fairphone partnership

On April 3, 2014 iFixit announced a partnership with Fairphone[17] (following an April 1 hoax that iFixit had partnered with Apple ("iFixit – An Apple Company")[18] Links to the iFixit website and Fairphone repair guides are available on the Fairphone website.

Student Partnerships

iFIxit works with multiple universities including, Western Carolina University. The universities teams with iFixit to get students to make repair guides for several devices in hopes that it will cut electronic waste.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "ifixit.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2015-11-21.
  2. ↑ http://www.ifixit.com/Users?order=date. Retrieved 2015-05-18. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ↑ http://www.ifixit.com/Info/Licensing. Retrieved 2013-10-17. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. ↑ "Where we are coming from". Retrieved 15 April 2012.
  5. ↑ "Gadget Teardowns". Retrieved 20 September 2016.
  6. ↑ How iFixit Uses Teardowns As Marketing 3.0, by Leander Kahney, Cult of Mac Sep. 18, 2009, retrieved July 2, 2010
  7. ↑ 17 inch MacBook Pro gets torn to pieces, PC World article
  8. ↑ Mac Observer article, 1 February 2008
  9. 1 2 Brown, Bob (2015-09-30). "Apple gives iFixit app the boot". Network World. Retrieved 2015-10-03.
  10. ↑ "iFixit in the Press". Retrieved 15 April 2012.
  11. ↑ New York Times Tech Talk Podcast: D.I.Y. Electronics Repair, cue 8:07, April 28, 2010, J. D. Biersdorfer
  12. ↑ New York Times Personal Tech: Q&A September 22, 2010, J. D. Biersdorfer
  13. ↑ Wiens, Kyle. "Why Fixers Will Save Our Planet". The Atlantic. Retrieved 15 April 2012.
  14. ↑ "Meet Saleh, Egypt's Master Car Mechanic". Retrieved 15 April 2012.
  15. ↑ "Inside a Water-Pump Repair Shop in Kenya". Retrieved 15 April 2012.
  16. ↑ "Make: Projects". Retrieved 15 April 2012.
  17. ↑ iFixit and Fairphone – Fixing The Cell Phone Problem, IFixit e-mail of April 3, 2014 (web version)
  18. ↑ We've got some great news! – iFixit and Apple working together – We’re pleased to announce that iFixit has been acquired by Apple, IFixit e-mail of April 1, 2014 (web version)

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