Apple Bans iFixit Repair App From App Store After Apple TV Teardown

alphadogg writes: iFixit, the fix-it-yourself advocate for users of Apple, Google and other gear, has had its repair manual app banned from Apple's App Store after it conducted an unauthorized teardown of Apple TV and Siri remote. iFixit blogged "we're a teardown and repair company; teardowns are in our DNA -- and nothing makes us happier than figuring out what makes these gadgets tick. We weighed the risks, blithely tossed those risks over our shoulder, and tore down the Apple TV anyway." iFixit does still have Windows and Android apps, and has no immediate plans to rewrite its Apple app to attempt being reinstated.

Comments

Re:Break The NDA

[tripleevenfall]

It was pretty foolish of them to publish a teardown of a pre-release developer unit. They could have taken it apart, published something on the repairability of it, etc., and left the teardown until the product was available for sale. Apple only really cares that the information was leaked and people got a look at it that wasn't the look they wanted to be first.

All iFixit has done here is made sure they won't receive any developer units from Apple in the future.

Re:Break The NDA

[penguinoid]

Presumably so they can study it, do their teardown, prepare their materials etc, and then wait until the product is released before publishing their results.