Apple doesn’t think prioritizing repairability is always good for the environment – and it might be right


If you read Apple‘s new whitepaper, Longevity by Design, you quickly realize that the road to sustainability is paved with good intentions and a lot of variability. An iPhone that can be completely repaired is not, in Apple’s view, the answer, nor is one that is so durable and locked down that it can not be accessed and repaired by human hands. 

Apple made numerous concessions in recent years to the Right to Repair crowd, opening various components across its product line to repair by Apple technicians and third-party providers who now have access to parts, but Apple, the paper (PDF) makes clear, is not designing with a goal of 100% repairability. 

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