Activism Bowing to Investors, Microsoft will Make its Devices Easier to Fix | Grist October 7, 2021 by Maddie Stone - Grist
Right to Repair We Told the Copyright Office that Repair Should be Legal, Period. What do ventilators, smart ice cream machines, and game consoles have in common? Fixing them could land you in trouble—lawsuits, fines, or even prison time under copyright law. We’re trying… April 22, 2021 by Kevin Purdy
Right to Repair Over 15,000 People Want the FTC to Fight for Our Right to Repair The Federal Trade Commission has held a workshop, heard awful repair stories, and now has received 15,059 signatures asking them to enforce a fair repair market. iFixit, along with US… April 21, 2021 by Kevin Purdy
Activism Sign Our Petition: Tell the FTC to Fix Our Broken Repair Economy Tech companies have been trying to lock down and control the repair market for far too long, boxing out small repair businesses and device owners. That’s why we’re asking the… March 31, 2021 by Kerry Sheehan
Right to Repair Join the Fight: Tell Us How You’ve Fixed Medical Devices Jacob Uyeda’s father needs a medication-vaporizing nebulizer to breathe every day. When it broke, the best his father’s air supplier could offer was to bring a new one the next… March 23, 2021 by Kerry Sheehan
Tech News Apple Is Using France’s New Repairability Scoring—Here’s How It Works A little wrench can make a big difference. In France, Apple, Samsung, Microsoft and other device makers are moving toward transparency and better long-term support for their products. They’re not… March 1, 2021 by Kevin Purdy
Right to Repair Top European Right to Repair Wins 2020 Looking back on 2020, it’s hard to avoid the bad times—but good things can grow, even under heavy rain. The challenges of isolation and a disrupted supply chain led to… December 31, 2020 by Dorothea Kessler
Video Design, Activism, and Fixing the World: Three Authors Talk with iFixit “Repair” is not one thing. It’s not just one mission, one organization, or even one law. Repair is the idea that things that once worked should work again, that things… December 9, 2020 by Kevin Purdy
Tech News Is This the End of the Repairable iPhone? Update, Jan. 14, 2021: After seeing a MacRumors report that iOS 14.4 could introduce a “genuine Apple camera” warning, similar to what occurs when trading batteries and screens, we tested… October 29, 2020 by Kevin Purdy