They also purposely build their devices in such a way that they often can’t be economically repaired, necessitating a repurchase. Check out Louis Rossman on YouTube, he owns a repair shop and rants about it all the time.
I’ve literally just got my phone back from a local phone repair shop (repairing my iPhone) and it’s Samsungs my repair person rants about (the Z and S models they mentioned in particular). They fixed my iPhone same day while I waited.
Looking at iFixit scores, that seems to track. Samsungs seem to get 2/10 to 4/10, Apple get 6/10s. Google Pixel 7 seems to get slated everywhere for taking the longest to repair.
Phones in general seem to be awful to repair but I do not see iPhones as any worse than the current trends of unrepairable flip phones or phones with flimsy components like the Pixel 7 rear camera glass.
They also purposely build their devices in such a way that they often can’t be economically repaired, necessitating a repurchase. Check out Louis Rossman on YouTube, he owns a repair shop and rants about it all the time.
I’ve literally just got my phone back from a local phone repair shop (repairing my iPhone) and it’s Samsungs my repair person rants about (the Z and S models they mentioned in particular). They fixed my iPhone same day while I waited.
Looking at iFixit scores, that seems to track. Samsungs seem to get 2/10 to 4/10, Apple get 6/10s. Google Pixel 7 seems to get slated everywhere for taking the longest to repair.
Phones in general seem to be awful to repair but I do not see iPhones as any worse than the current trends of unrepairable flip phones or phones with flimsy components like the Pixel 7 rear camera glass.
Can you share the Pixel 7 repairability score from iFixit? I couldn’t find one.
I did find a glowing review from Hugh Jeffreys, another respected repair channel in YouTube.
https://youtu.be/yIiRc97DOU8?si=SNEQ-0SMX9ksn2ak
They didn’t publish one for some reason but you can garner a strong idea but just looking at the difficulty scores and time each type of repair takes.