Go read iFixit’s damning take on Samsung’s ‘ruined’ upcycling program
A screenshot from Samsung's 2017 trailer. | Image: Samsung In a new blog post, iFixit heavily criticizes Samsung's recently announced Galaxy Upcycling program (via ArsTechnica), an initiative which the repair specialists helped launch in 2017. It's a damning look at how the initiative morphed from its ambitious origins to a nearly unrecognizable" final form, and completely sidelined iFixit in the process.
Here's how iFixit describes the original plan:
The original Upcycling announcement had huge potential. The purpose was twofold: unlock phones' bootloaders-which would have incidentally assisted other reuse projects like LineageOS-and foster an open source marketplace of applications for makers. You could run any operating system you wanted. It could have made a real dent in the huge and...