A repairable iPhone?

Julian Chokkattu • Wired “It’s proof that it can be done—if companies wanted to make eminently fixable modular products, they could,” Proctor says. “There’s no technological reason why they can’t do it; it really is what they’ve decided to produce. It does raise the question: Why isn’t more of our technology easy to fix? … People are going to start thinking about smartphones as longer-term investments, especially as prices have gone up for these phones.” This Wired piece is about a repairable phone from a Dutch company called Fairphone. It looks like a really nice device with 12 replaceable, inexpensive, parts. The only downside I see is, it doesn’t run iOS, and there’s the rub. Apple owns me. I’m locked into their beautiful hardware because I want the OS and the experience it brings. It would be lovely if Apple could find a way to give us a low end iPhone that is fully repairable, like the Fairphone, for a price comparable to Fairphone. Of course they won’t but it would be lovely. If…