[ifixit] We Are Retroactively Dropping the iPhone’s Repairability Score

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[ifixit] We Are Retroactively Dropping the iPhone’s Repairability Score::We need to have a serious chat about iPhone repairability. We judged the phones of yesteryear by how easy they were to take apart—screws, glues, how hard it was…

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for now, we are only rescoring the iPhone 14. We are not retroactively rescoring earlier iPhones at this time. If we did, their scores would also likely decline.

I don't get it. They finally recognized that the score does not reflect reality, leads to wasted money and frustration, and then they don't apply there newfound insight to products already affected? To me that seems somewhat dishonest.

Seems to me that it took a huge amount of time and resources to reach the new score, and I'm guessing they don't have the budget to do the same for every model

I'm guessing they don't feel the time to do a fair re-review is worth it on older devices with less, but higher than 0, new users.

Most people who are interested in those devices already have them, so a change in score doesn't really make a difference.