A Good Way To Fight Against Planned Obsolescence

We all know about Wikipedia, the #1 online encyclopedia, but we now know about iFixit which is a website that offers multitude of offers for different product to repair any Apple products.

"The revamped website provides free wiki-style fix-it manuals. Double the life of your gadget, halve your amount of e-waste, and save money too." 

The website designed in a Wikipedia style explains you how to fix or replace different part of your defective product to increase its durability. It is a good way to fight against Planned Obsolescence that will increase a lot in the next few months. Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, announced a couple weeks ago that the new iPhone OS4 will not be compatible with the 1st generation of iPhone creating an increase of e-waste.

iFixit is a great way to change the defective part of your iPhone, iPod and any Apple computer to reduce the e-waste surrounding your community.

Here's a video that goes with this article talking about the impact of e-waste in our environment.

http://www.ifixit.com/

Schahram Rezai-Ahvanoui