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

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 1, 2015 @02:17AM from the stop-looking-stop-looking dept.

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.

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Monopoly by itamblyn · 2015-10-01 02:31 · Score: 0, Offtopic

How is it that Google is being scrutinized for anti-trust (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-25/google-said-to-be-under-u-s-antitrust-scrutiny-over-android-iezf41sg) when Apple has been behaving like this for years? I don't want to start a flame war (I've used mac laptops forever), but I don't see how they continue to fly under the radar.