10 Tech Products That Are Next to Impossible to Repair.
Repairing a faulty or damaged gadget no longer requires a PhD in electrical engineering or a visit from your brainiac family member. Sites like iFixit provide an invaluable repository of tutorials and techniques that empower people to pick up a basic set of tools and try to repair things on their own.
After all, if your device is no longer under warranty and the only other option is to buy a replacement, what’s the harm in trying? Complexity, that’s what.
Some gadgets are simply more difficult to disassemble, repair, and reassemble than others. Whether that comes down to sleeker and slimmer devices necessitating irreparable designs for the sake of aesthetics or manufacturers intentionally making their products tough to fix so you’ll be inclined to buy a replacement is up for debate. There’s also the issue of tracking down quality replacement components, but we’ll save that discussion for another day.
In this refresh of a reader favorite, we’ll be examining 10 recent tech gadgets that are nearly impossible to repair. While I’d never want to discourage skilled DIYers and those on a mission, I’m confident in saying that most would avoid a lot of headaches by staying away from fixing these problematic products.
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