Snap suggests Apple out to 'screw' hardware hackers

[jbhtexas]

Someone with one of those 3-D scanners/printers will reverse engineer that screw head in less than an hour.

 

[klamath632]

That efficiency is usually lost in the time it takes to find an IT employee who can function in society and deal with an end user. So in other words, still switching tools.

Even to a guy like me that's just cold.

 

[CLONECONES]

Hello, I'll be your genius.

 

[ISUME]

A screwdriver for these will be available on the internet within 6 months of these products hitting the market place.

 

[jdoggivjc]

A screwdriver for these will be available on the internet within 6 months of these products hitting the market place.

Try 6 hours.

 

[bos]

I hope some of you hate Sony, they do the same thing. Memory stick pro, anyone? Or any of their prior proprietary garbage?

A screw is the least of my concerns. There are always kits, available. Nintendo uses triwing ones. Chances are, if you do any work on these types of machines, one more tool isnt going to break you.

 

[fatkid1974]

I replaced glass on my ipod touch and lost one of the screws inside. I haven't been able to find replacements anywhere online. Any of you techies have a secret aftermarket apple site you use?

 

[3TrueFans]

I hope some of you hate Sony, they do the same thing. Memory stick pro, anyone? Or any of their prior proprietary garbage?

A screw is the least of my concerns. There are always kits, available. Nintendo uses triwing ones. Chances are, if you do any work on these types of machines, one more tool isnt going to break you.

Yeah, that's why I say it's surprising they haven't done something like this until now.

 

[ISUME]

Try 6 hours.

I was going for mass produced with some competition for better pricing.

 

[CLONECONES]

I replaced glass on my ipod touch and lost one of the screws inside. I haven't been able to find replacements anywhere online. Any of you techies have a secret aftermarket apple site you use?

if i understand correctly, this, is what Apple is essentially trying to avoid

 

[NickTheGreat]

Figures, Apples even has to have proprietary screws.

I hope some of you hate Sony, they do the same thing. Memory stick pro, anyone? Or any of their prior proprietary garbage?

Why yes, my good sir, I do hate Sony. Overrated, proprietary, overpriced, mediocre products. :laugh:

 

[jdoggivjc]

The thing I find about these smaller screws is they're not terribly difficult to remove without the proper screwdriver. When I replaced the cracked screen on my Droid Incredible it had an extremely tiny hex key opening I just didn't have a small enough hex driver for. I was able to remove it rather easily with the flathead pin on my Leatherman. Maybe I'm wrong but I would guess it won't be terribly difficult to remove regardless.

 

[bos]

 

[Hugs4ISU]

People criticize Apple, but "other companies" end up following them eventually. For example, for all the flack that Apple got for not including a microsd slot or Flash video compatibility on the iPad, try using a microsd card or flash videos with the Google Nexus 7.

 

[Jgraham]

People criticize Apple, but

Flash has been dropped for mobile, and will be gone completely soon enough, to be replaced with HTML5. This is an Adobe thing, not Apple or Google.

The microSD was left out to keep costs down, so the nexus 7 could compete with the Kindle Fire.

 

[bos]

People criticize Apple, but

Flash has been dropped for mobile, and will be gone completely soon enough, to be replaced with HTML5. This is an Adobe thing, not Apple or Google.

The microSD was left out to keep costs down, so the nexus 7 could compete with the Kindle Fire.

I'm sure the micro sd controller was a real bank buster. Those are pretty much given away at this point.

 

[Hugs4ISU]

People criticize Apple, but

Flash has been dropped for mobile, and will be gone completely soon enough, to be replaced with HTML5. This is an Adobe thing, not Apple or Google.

The microSD was left out to keep costs down, so the nexus 7 could compete with the Kindle Fire.

Keep believing that microsd "was left out to keep costs down". They left it out for the same reason Apple did: to push profits up. Would the 16GB version have sold out so quickly, if they had included a microsd slot? No, many people would have purchased the 8GB version and expanded it. Google saw an opportunity to make people pay an extra $50 for something that costs them $15 (the additional 8GB) and ran with it.

This is the only reason I haven't purchased a Nexus 7. The microsd thing is a deal breaker for me. Perhaps if it had 32GB, I do without microsd, but 16GB isn't enough, especially when the system uses part of that and the real usable space is more like 12GB.

 

[CyFan61]

Turns out this whole thing was fake

How we screwed (almost) the whole Apple community