232. Repair vs. Design
Channel: THUNK
Date: 24/11/2022

Apple has built their brand on a fanatical commitment to design, but their devices can be straight-up hostile when it comes to repair & maintenance. Maybe one leads to the other.

-Links for the Curious-

'Complete control': Apple accused of overpricing, restricting device repairs | CBC News - https://www.cbc.ca/news/thenational/complete-control-apple-accused-of-overpricing-restricting-device-repairs-1.4859099 

Values in Repair (Houston et al, 2016) - https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/2858036.2858470 

Designing for Repair? Infrastructures and Materialities of Breakdown (Rosner & Ames, 2014) - http://www.dataluna.com/moca-papers/319.pdf 

Design for repair: empowering consumers to fix the future | Guardian sustainable business - https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/design-repair-empowering-consumers-fix-future 

The Mechanics of Workplace Order: Toward a Sociology of Repair (Henke, 1999) - https://www.jstor.org/stable/41035546 

The Work of Repair: Gesture, Emotion and Sensual Knowledge (Dant, 2010) - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/46559262_The_Work_of_Repair_Gesture_Emotion_and_Sensual_Knowledge/download 

Making: Movement or Brand? (Bean & Rosner, 2014) - https://faculty.washington.edu/dkrosner/files/making-bean-rosner.pdf 

The History Of Jailbreaking [Feature] | Cult of Mac - https://www.cultofmac.com/192850/the-history-of-jailbreaking-feature/ 

Apple's Jony Ive describes "fanatical" approach to design in interview | Macworld - https://www.macworld.com/article/670762/apples-jony-ive-describes-fanatical-approach-to-design-in-interview.html 

Jonathan Ive: Apple's goal isn't to make money | WIRED UK - https://www.wired.co.uk/article/jonathan-ive-revenue-good-design

Apple I - Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_I

Nixing the Fix: A Workshop on Repair Restrictions | Federal Trade Commission - https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/events/2019/07/nixing-fix-workshop-repair-restrictions

Louis keeps his middle finger high for Apple Inc! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26cNHSilikI  

20 years Same dealer, same brand. Not even a cheap gold watch. - https://www.reddit.com/gallery/y3bhkf

OLPC’s $100 laptop was going to change the world — then it all went wrong - The Verge - https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/16/17233946/olpcs-100-laptop-education-where-is-it-now