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You’ll soon be able to repair your own iPhone

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2 years ago

November 18, 2021

Anthony Lucas

Apple is set to launch an online order service with sales of screen, battery and camera parts for the iPhones 12 and 13

Apple has announced a self-service repair programme so customers can fix their own devices

When the program launches in early 2022, it will cover replacing the batteries, screens and cameras of recent iPhones.

Apple’s new repair store will sell more than 200 parts and tools.

It comes after months of increasing pressure on Apple from the grassroots right-to-repair movement which wants individuals and independent repair shops to be able to fix electronics.

Apple launches new self-service repair option / Image: File

The program will launch in the United States first

Starting in the US in early 2022 and then the UK and other countries, a new online repair store will offer more than 200 individual parts and tools for repairing the iPhone 12 and iPhone 13 handsets.

The service will start by offering parts for the screen, battery and camera, the bits of an iPhone most commonly brought in for fixes.

“Creating greater access to Apple genuine parts gives our customers even more choice if a repair is needed,” said Jeff Williams, Apple’s chief operating officer.

Although the accompanying press release was illustrated with people fixing a phone at their kitchen table and work desk, Apple stated that the service would not be for customers that just want to “have a go” but instead for “individual technicians with the knowledge and experience to repair electronic devices”.

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3 weeks ago

September 1, 2023

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Meta to launch microblogging competitor in wake of Twitter backlash

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3 months ago

July 5, 2023

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The recent backlash against Musk’s proposed tweet cap could prove to be the perfect time to launch the competitor

Meta Platforms, the company behind Facebook, plans to launch a microblogging app called Threads on Thursday, to operate as a direct competitor to Twitter.

The launch comes just days after Twitter boss Elon Musk attracted criticism by announcing limits to how many posts users could read on the platform.

Threads will allow users to directly port their followers from Instagram, another app owned by the company, and to keep the same username. This feature will allow users to supercharge the often slow process of building a following on the new site.

While other apps such as Mastodon and Blue Sky have failed to present much of a challenge to Twitter, Threads is launching after a period of intense criticism and scepticism of Twitter, which followed Musk’s US$44 billion purchase of the platform in 2022.

Musk has made significant staffing cuts in areas like content moderation which has caused a rift with advertisers. He has also implemented several elements such as an US$8 per month account verification system which has proved unpopular with users.

Instagram boasts roughly 2.3 billion users compared to Twitter’s almost 400 million, which poses a significant user advantage from which to draw from.