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

Plausible speculation, Nevertheless, speculation

[Geoffrey.landis]

Did you read the article? iFixit admits this:

Just where exactly in the quoted text does the phrase "NDA" occur?

Oh-- it doesn't.

iFixit knew that Apple would not be happy with them disassembling it but did it anyway.

"not happy" is not a synonym for "signed a NDA."

Reasonable speculation. Plausible. Fits the known facts. Very likely it's even correct.

Still: this is a speculation.