How iFixit Became the World's Best iPhone Teardown Team
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ย. 2024
- The most important thing that happens when a new iPhone comes out is not the release of the phone, but the disassembly of it. The iPhone teardown, undertaken by third-party teams around the world, provides a roadmap for the life of the iPhone X: Is it repairable? Who made the components inside it? The answers to these questions shift stock markets, electronics design, and consumer experience.
Every year there’s a race to become the first to tear down the phone, with teams from around the world flying to Australia-where it’s first released-to compete to be the first to look inside the world’s most coveted new phone. Motherboard embedded with iFixit, a California-based company whose primary mission is to make it easier for the average person to disassemble and repair their electronics, for its iPhone X teardown.
We went inside iFixit’s office, the “headquarters of the global repair movement, which features a tool laboratory and a parts library with thousands of electronics parts and disassembly tools. Then we went to Sydney, Australia, as iFixit tried to become the first team to tear down the iPhone X.
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We followed iFixit on their race to teardown the new iPhone X, literally traveling to the other side of the world to be the first to learn what's inside Apple's latest and greatest.
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This was one of the best videos you made yet. Thanks for such great and interesting videos.
Why move your whole business there instead of traveling there when the phones come out every year? Does it make more financial sense to move over there? Is it cheaper less taxes or something as well? Or did i miss understand and they are just going to get the phone?
Motherboard well , i think JerryRigEverything is the best
huaqiangbei ftw
internet here in australia is crap for starters
you gotta love when companies put "void if removed" stickers, on items sold in the US, to try & scare people to not open devices, even though there is the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act which has been in place since 1975, making it a federal law, that consumers can open or repair their devices, without warranty being voided.
Companies know that people aren't gonna pursue a lawsuit to get their warranty, so that put the stickers there anyway
It's not true, all it does is make sure companies explicitly detail their warranty
Yeah, that isn't how that law works or has been interpreted. Can't just make up shit and make it reality...
except that's not how it works thou
typical trump supporters while I don't disagree with the msg I disagree with idiotic unrealistic reasoning
I love what their lead engineer said "It's not just like the monolith, its not just like this sealed black box - you open it up and there's a battery inside, just like your car, just like your watch..."
This is definitely the first thing you need to realize when you start repairing your own things, there is no magic involved almost anything can be repaired/replaced/deconstructed. Its so beautiful
I used to have dreams. Now my dream is just to fix things for this very same reason. Everything has a fix!
I like what these guys stand for.
Geeks ?
@@nicolapodgornik Sure JC Denton
But still iPhone display scratches level 6 and deeper grooves at level 7 hardness pick
My god.... Jerry rig everything. ...
@@m.dhinakar9636 yes
Yes yes jerryrigeverything reference
I hope and pray that iFixit will last for a long long time. This is one of those movements that led to real change.
*The right to repair* can boost the economic activity for the people who offer repair services !
Planned obsolescence should be illegal too !
LOL the Australian government will wait till the rest of the world has a Right To Repair law then copy the most shit version of the law they can. that's all they do these days is copy laws from other country's.
It slow down the economic, Costumer rarely buy isheep every year, becuz if it brake u can fix it
@@phalanx3803 why are you mentioning Indian government??
@@abhishekdev258 I don't know if you're being sarcastic or if you didn't read the comment properly?
@@phalanx3803 I am being sarcastic towards my govt.
"I'm excited about the teardown, I'm not excited that there's a new phone in the world" - man after my own heart
8:30 triggered my natural instinct to hop off my bed and get ready for school
Kyle Chen for me it scares me, just because of abruptly waking up every morning to that sound.
Jelly On A Plate same!
😂
Jelly On A Plate . I thought it was only me who gets scared when getting woke up by that sound 😂.
Yooooo
I’d like to hear more from this guy being interviewed. He seems like a interesting tech guy
He is a really cool dude, got the chance to attend a conference he spoke at recently and he completely changed the way I view tech recycling.
kuwait85 🤔 Tell me, what is the qualification needed to be a ✌️_"Tech guy"_✌️ ? That is an extremely non-descript, vague, all-encompassing umbrella term to shove anyone and everyone under, from someone who feels they're "qualified" to plug in a wall charger, to a NASA engineer who has an IQ that would soar to the sun of it's own volition, and generally bundle all the average people together with the *EXCEPTIONALLY* gifted ones, to sound all fuzzy and smart, so the NOT so clever ones feel equally special... wowwww... "Tech guy" - what a schmuck, idiotic phrase.
unlokia, uhh are you okay?
Wow, triggered much? That's an odd rant you've gone off on over a perfectly normal and totally in context phrase there buddy.
@unlokia If you don't see the subject as "exceptionally gifted," something bigger is wrong with you. Given your rant, we already know you were dropped on your head, so how about some therapy?
Ifixit:we are the best teardown team
Jerryrigeverything:hold my level 6
And a deeper grooves at level 7.
Why did I just hear his voice when you said “hold my level 6”
MECCA! As a former fruitstand employee, and iFixit wholesaler, iFixit is my hero, and my go-to for parts and tear-down manuals. And Vice is our favorite news source.
I am really glad to see IFixIt to be the best company when it comes to phone tear down manuals. I repaired my Xperia ZL by watching their manuals. It was an amazing experience. It gave me a sense of fulfilment that I was able to repair my own device as an Electronics and Telecommunication Engineer. Thanks to IFixIt. All the best to you guys.
Other channels on TH-cam too,. Jerryrigseverything
yep
It’s amazing the great lengths you have to go through to be ahead of your game. On TH-cam, the viewers including myself unfortunately take these videos for granted, not appreciating how much effort it takes to make these short teardown video of the latest gadgets. Even though you’re highly rewarded for your efforts, respect because you earned it.jay
6:35 "No, I'm not even going to turn it on". 8:03 Turning it on and setting up FaceID...
You guys realize that New Zealand is ahead of Australia by 2 hours. My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined
I dont care, unless it was posted on instagram
Maybe NZ isn't on the list of iPhone launch countries.
Why you quoting review brah
Earlier but definitely don't have the microchip factory
Maybe they are in new zealand but said australia, so everyone knows there it is
11:22 "Thousands of years to design one chip" xD
Oscar Luthje 🤦♂️
I was looking for this comment. 💀💀😂😂😂
he means man hours
That setup at 1:24 is a standalone setup environment. I love it
Ifixit accidently printed into consumer version of oculus touch controllers for Rift S and Quest.
What a great marketing plan!
I just went and subscribed to ifixit. I'm a huge supporter of DIY repair and electronics engineering and I completely agree and believe in ifixit's model of business. Putting the power in people's hands while making a profit. It's a win/win.
Will it blend - The Ultimate teardown channel.
I started disassembling my toys when i was kid, it was more fascinating than playing with them, i wanted to see how they work. Now i started to not just take apart, but assemble smartphones, all kinds of computers and seeing them turn back on it's like magic. And Ifixit is a big relief because all kinds of people come together to share knowledge from their experience. It's like the library for the tinkering geeks all over the world!
hehe 907 authorized apple service workers gave thumbs down :( eh how sad this is..
And one little suggestion: I would love to see board schematics on the site!
Did u see when he was showing the group he said this is where they live lmao
Very cool video. This guy is what tens of thousands of TH-camrs WISH they were, but they don't realize the hard work and commitment it takes. No self-proclamation needed.
11:19
wow qualcom has been at it for even longer than i thought
Lol
I think he means how many man hours have gone into actually designing it. As in if 200 people put 100 hours of man work into it, that's 20,000 hours of work into the product
3:24 guy is like: "camera? Gotta go the other way!" :D
I love what ifixit do, i repair my own iPhone and mac 6 times by watching their videos and website , ifixit is awesome, they are the only confident.
Saswathi, you repaired it, tore it apart and fixed it again and gain six times. Due you are loco
I had the honour of talking with Kyle Wiens through his Reddit AMA on January 6th, he even gifted me the "Repair Business Toolkit" for free!
Such an amazing individual! He always tries to push the boundaries of repairability in all devices, from iPhones to cars to everything in between.
Thanks for your work, Kyle!
This seems to be so Amazing
It's amazing until you realize these are the people that made california into a unfortable place to live. tbh it is interesting how much more technology is going to get over time.
L'Atelier De Bilbo - Ursus You're evidently easily impressed.
unlokia When it comes to fun jobs related to engineering, yes.
Ursus Discursus this is sooo stupid
"Congratulations you got the first iPhone X what are you going to do with it?"
ifixit: "Where taking it apart"
"..."
I love the fact that ifixit has such a huge community of not only there team but also there's tech's from all over the world that be live in the right to repair.
They behave like biologists that discovered a new species, but instead of a creature it is a machine/device.
_Paws_ if people think this nonsense is astounding, then... that shows how dumb people are... 🤷
unlokia well the stuff that tiny thing is able to do is actually pretty damn astounding... its just that most people don't need a fraction of that
unlokia - not sure if you hate Apple products or not...the discovery of something is astounding even if it may just be a common item. Can you engineer a device like that if not better?
I am not an Apple fan myself but a small machine capable of doing any of those things maybe trivial to someone who doesn't need it, I guess.
It’s warriors like the iFix It team, Louis Rossman, Jessa Jones, Hugh Jeffreys, and Phone Repair Guru to name a few that are fighting for our right to repair the things we bought and own. Thank you guys.
I love these types of videos; very knowledgeable and intuitive.😉
I've seen nothing better than this on the internet. That guy behind iFixit is amazing
Ironically,Jerry rig everything who uses ifixit is more popular than them
Vedraj r.m true
no he's not, he uses his own tool
It's okay, both of them want to help the people. That's cool for me.
yea that's the goal they want the same goal help those fix and repair their devices
He doesn't use ifixit he takes it apart and helps people with repairing it on their own
He's a hero of the people - and their rights! May life be kind to him.
Thank you guys for the hard work you put out there for the simple man to deal with complex mechanisms.
🤘🏻 You rock iFixit!!!
"Most thought out carefully design " that's an overstatement.
I'm not a huge fan of Apple, however this really makes you appreciate the amount of time, effort and money the engineers have spent on the iPhone X. And iFixit's dedication to the job. They make repairing your own devices sooooo, so much easier. Kudos Motherboard and iFixit! And thanks for stopping by Australia
As a smartphone repair shop owner myself, I respect iFixit and the entire team tremendously! This video was amazing. Thank you Motherboard for giving us the in-depth effort of what iFixit goes through to provide the public with the information that Apple and other billion dollar companies are trying to prevent the public to see.
*This is very revealing!*
_All along I thought _*_iFixit_*_ is a big repair company._
It's *open source* and that really 🆒!
The most important thing, you guys (iFixit Team) have been educated a lot of people about the stuff that they using. Not only what's inside it but also to understand how the machine working. Some people think they can't able to repair their stuff at home, i do also actually, but with all the step by step guide in iFixit, now we can do exactly what we need to do before star to repair. It's very useful information and more education on it.
No matter how smart Manufactures are. There is always people way smarter then they are. As people want to know how things works. Then fix them or make them better! One reason manufactures are out gunned. They have a product release date to meet. The iFixit team. Is not under such restrictions.
One reason I support. The right to repair laws. It makes people smarter!
I have a whole new respect for iFixit now, what a great story and so interesting to me since I have been taking things apart for as long as I can remember and have repaired hundreds of iPhones.
"The most carefully design product in the history of the world"
xDDDD fanboyism is strong in this one
If the iFixit team is reading this, miss you guys! Best job I've ever had, I still salivate thinking about the Tuesday Thursday lunches. Keep killing it!
To say the iphone has the most thought put into it's design out of all things we've ever created is both bizarre and completely false.
That being said I love what iFixit is doing and I hope they continue. Great video.
Thanks to this video, I always used to think iFixit was just a tech review page. This video has taught me about their brilliant website. It's taught me that I can actually order repair kits and parts for most of the products I own at AFFORDABLE PRICES. I would spend a lot taking them to repair shops just because I never had the things required. Thank you for this incredible video!
Castle Towers shopping center! 5mins down the road from me 😄
You guys do an amazing job! Had no idea how big you guys were
This needs to be it's own TH-cam channel.
Great video, wonderful interviews.
I LOVE the toolkit I recently bought from them. Quality shit.
Did any one notice circuitwise curvy chic 😘😘😘
Yeah no joke! I want more!
effin hot she is
Serena Ross
- General Manager at Circuitwise Electronics
Yeah!! I did..
@@mackenzierynebagtong8549 So triggered :'D
Wow! I found a new level of respect for the iFixit team.
"I'm on one side of the Pacific and now it's time to go to... THE OTHERRRR..."
I became addicted to putting stuff together through these guys. First reached out when my OnePlus 2 had a string of defects: home button wasn't working properly, and the buttons to either side had uneven brightness. Camera was blurred. So I learned how to replace every single one of these elements through iFixit, bought the parts - already had the tools from previously needing them for my Macbook.
In a time where the generational gap between each smartphone launch is narrower and narrower, in a time where the price hike doesn't reflect on the actual upgrade on the phones, the smartphone industry is reaching its endgame, and so they need to plan the obsolescence of their products in order to keep selling. We might not have a modular smartphone, but with the right tools and knowledge, we probably will never need to buy a new smartphone again.
Kyle Wiens of iFixit is one of my personal heroes. I still have their Repair Manifesto on my wall. The whole first to teardown thing always struck me as a bit wankery, but the whole team has a genuine conviction about the right to repair and I commend them for that.
Mike Trieu I'm very dubious just how genuine it is. He runs a company that sells parts. The more things that you can repair the more parts they can sell. Their concern is mostly for their bottom-line, I doubt it's a genuine concern about anything else
I liked it when he mentioned you have to believe in yourself before anything else. Coz i remember fixing my 5s just by watching ifixit guide
cool, thank you TH-cam, I was thoroughly enjoying watching this video and then you fed a commercial right in the middle of it and all I gotta say is "wow" what an awesome job guys! thanks for the commercial!
Great video, thank you. Hope the right to repair goes through in US and the rest of the world will follow
It's going to be a tough slog, particularly in the US where corruption in the form of dollars put into the reelection coffers of politicians by lobbyists, is legal. This issue is complicated, and way above the heads of just about every single politician, judge, and rank-and-file political leader, not to mention the typical citizen. Intellectual property law is way behind the times, and technology is outstripping the ability of the legislative and adjudicative processes to keep up with its advance.
As you say, the "legislative and adjudicative processes"
"are in the process of losing it because they are too stiff. They will inevitably lose authority through their own belief in old systems, systems which are losing respect", said another helpless soul.
is ifix not avaliable in the usa?
Genuinely love these guys. Thanks to them every iPhone I’ve bought since 2008 is still fully functional. Just nervous about what happens when my iPhone 7 goes wrong, especially with the waterproofing.
Matt H జ్ఞా
I totally believe in what you’re doing! Apple has enough money
Thank you iFixit, without you I've probably never watch this video with my 2010 macbook at all, since I change Hdd, Ram, Battery and Speaker by myself with your guide.
@motherboard, you should really allow your employees to fly business class when flying from LA- Aus...
Tearing them down is one thing. Putting it back to together and getting it to work again is another.
I'm very grateful for iFixit and their great employees.
My old iPhone 4S is still working because of their battery replacement.
It's "our" fault. when we buy products we are agreeing with everything a company does... I started recently to pay more attention to this things... It's like voting, but every time.
sl1g Your quotation marks are in the wrong place; go back to grammar class and take your tests again.
unlokia i think you’re being rude to him/her
@@unlokia don't need to know Grammer to get through life.
I had to change the battery on my 6 year old iPhone 5. Where as Apple charges $70, I managed to do it by purchasing iFixit battery and battery replacements tools for under $30. Sadly my only reservation is they don't ship worldwide, so whenever I need parts, I need to bring it down through somebody. Hopefully they fix it soon.
JewsLikeFunk Uh, are you aware that the batteries are now $30 for the rest of the year?
Boss Brandon I am aware! Those are for the last two/three generations of the iPhone, not older ones. + the program you're referring is not like you just go to the Apple store to get a replacement, they still calibrate it to identify whether the battery is at fault. Only then you can get the battery replaced.
They inspire many amateur technicians I bet, good thing such people like Kyle exist in a world full of companies that are doing their best to implement consumerism. Good job guys!
i think that was bubbles!
I have purchased from iFixit before for wrist watch electronics; however, I never knew their background story or their mission and daily operations. I will definitely be patronizing iFixit for all my electronics needs!
Pretty interesting to see what goes on behind the scenes at iFixit, but in my opinion, it does feel a little bit like an advertisement
~This is an advertisement, of course, the line about being hours earlier is hype, it all happened how many weeks ago and they are just now sending out emails to us that this is on youtube. But that is the level we are at, there is a war going on for people's minds. Just wait for the robots arriving. 2018 02 24 12:49 MET
kenneth keen interesting perspective - when you say robots, do you mean like AI and how automation is growing?
Thats a strong point right there. "in order to fix things, first you gotta believe in yourself... "
IFixit is a novelty that draws attention to everyone, it is worth knowing
6:48 It's 8 am Syndey HAHA, it's Sydney.
Love the movement of empowering the public on taking back control of our everyday necessities
I like the torn-down orange picture.
dude this felt so fucking nostalgic for some reason. great fucking episode, loving the vibe
Ifixit are one of the few company's that understand what the right to repair is and are fighting for consumers, they need our support to support us.
Do one on building DIY e-bicycles
The ifixit dudes the real MVP
We should boycott companies who glue their phones together and refuse to offer repair guides and affordable spare parts. iFixit, you guys are champions.
Jerryrig does it alone
One of the most inspiring videos I saw lately. Well done (to ifixit, not Apple)
an S8 back panel costs 50 bucks iphone X costs almost half the phone's price... it's almist as if they wanted you to break the damn thing.
Vinnie Sifter because you can't replace the back glass panel on the 8/X (not without a lot of prying and heat).
Vinnie Sifter
Why does it sound like you think that's a good thing. It's not lol.
It's cheaper to replace parts than a new phone.
I'm sure Apple purposefully made the 8/X hard to fix so you can just replace your phone when it breaks (more $$$ there)
Vinnie Sifter isheep here. 😂😂😂
the back panel on an S9 costs 50$ more to replace than iphone x
Lol S8 back panel cost less than 15$ lol...But sure buy it for 50 lol
I love ifixit, i know how to teardown PS2, PS3, and PS4 by myself from ifixit and i even bought their kit.
Love iFixit. I have used their guides many times. Thanks guys.
Oh yeah, long live right to repair.
This is cool an ifix it helps me fix my shit and learn how things i own work makes geek squad look like chumps
I love the work I fix it does, as an engineer, I tear everything apart because how it works is often more interesting to me than what it does. I think that my favorite line was I don't care that another phone is in the world, yet it's my job to tear it down to help people fix it...
Wait....there’s a competition for disassembling a iPhone?
Badboy DCX probably, probably not. either way it's a great PR for them to promote their repair kit
Way back in the day around 2000, my mom worked at apple and managed the internal website that taught employees how to fix the devices, during that time all apple made was computers, and the only screw drivers needed were flathead and philips, one of the challenging parts of the job was security, since my mom had such a high profile position, she wasn't allowed to talk about what she did much, and all she did was manage the instructions to take apart the computers.
yeah..not disappointed that i chose ifix for my new part. LIKE
What took so long to publish this story?
ifixit prolly didnt want to show their operations until very well established in the community. I'm sure theres a Chinese company that does the exact same thing by now
The operations aren't anything special, you can do the same at home. There are hundreds of other companies doing the same thing.
iFixIt has been well established for years now. If I had to take a guess I would say because of delays in seeking approval from iFixIt, and the Australian tech company as to what they can and cannot post.
Go Ham what compamy?
Very cool video. I really enjoyed seeing the phone all laid out like that and the x-rays!
Big shoutout to ifixit. If it wasn't for them i wouldn't have been able to repair my iphone 4s after it got badly water damaged.
I love what you do. All products should be able to be repaired. I build my own computers so I can repair easily. I used your videos to replace a disk drive with an SSD, it helped a lot.
Wow! Australia is very beautiful! And they have very advanced technology too!
They claim transparency and quick transactions for lcd buyback yet they receive screens and don't pay them and don't respond to messages or calls. Worst company ever. Great for guides, bad for costumer service.
Big respect for ifixit
well done guys