obispo california key people kyle wiens ceo luke soules cxo website ifixit.com ifixit.com users 1 200 000 1 content license creative commons by nc sa 2 alexa rank 2 554 september 2016 update 3 ifixit is a private company in san luis obispo california . founded in 2003 while the founders were attending cal poly the company sells repair parts and publishes free wiki like online repair guides for consumer electronics and gadgets on its web site . 4 the company is also known for their teardowns of consumer devices . 5 ifixit product teardowns of new apple products are carried 6 by pc world 7 the mac observer 8 networkworld 9 and other publications . 10 founder kyle wiens aims to reduce electronic waste by teaching people to repair their own gear 11 and offering tools parts and a forum to discuss repairs . 12 in 2011 he travelled through africa with a documentary team ; a short film is in progress 13 and stories of fixers met on the trip are posted on the company s activism oriented blog ifixit.org . 14 15 ifixit provides a saas platform known as dozuki to enable others to use ifixit s documentation framework to produce their own documentation . an early adopter was o reilly media whose make and craft magazines use dozuki to feature community guides alongside instructions originally written by the staff for the print magazine . 16 in september 2015 apple removed the ifixit app from the app store in reaction to the company s publication of a teardown of a developer pre release version of the apple tv 4th generation obtained under apple s developer program violating a signed non disclosure agreement and as such their developer account was suspended . 9 ifixit has since worked on developing a more user friendly mobile site so mobile users can still access ifixit . contents 1 fairphone partnership 2 student partnerships 3 see also 4 references 5 external links fairphone partnership edit on april 3 2014 ifixit announced a partnership with fairphone 17 following an april 1 hoax that ifixit had partnered with apple ifixit an apple company 18 links to the ifixit website and fairphone repair guides are available on the fairphone website . student partnerships edit ifixit works with multiple universities including western carolina university . the universities teams with ifixit to get students to make repair guides for several devices in hopes that it will cut electronic waste . see also edit repair caf do it yourself references edit http www.ifixit.com users order date . retrieved 2015 05 18 . missing or empty title help http www.ifixit.com info licensing . retrieved 2013 10 17 . missing or empty title help ifixit.com site info . alexa internet . retrieved 2015 11 21 . where we are coming from . retrieved 15 april 2012 . gadget teardowns . retrieved 20 september 2016 . how ifixit uses teardowns as marketing 3.0 by leander kahney cult of mac sep. 18 2009 retrieved july 2 2010 17 inch macbook pro gets torn to pieces pc world article mac observer article 1 february 2008 a b brown bob 2015 09 30 . apple gives ifixit app the boot . network world . retrieved 2015 10 03 . ifixit in the press . retrieved 15 april 2012 . new york times tech talk podcast d.i.y. electronics repair cue 8 07 april 28 2010 j. d. biersdorfer new york times personal tech q & a september 22 2010 j. d. biersdorfer wiens kyle . why fixers will save our planet . the atlantic . retrieved 15 april 2012 . meet saleh egypt s master car mechanic . retrieved 15 april 2012 . inside a water pump repair shop in kenya . retrieved 15 april 2012 . make projects . retrieved 15 april 2012 . ifixit and fairphone fixing the cell phone problem ifixit e mail of april 3 2014 web version we ve got some great news ifixit and apple working together we re pleased to announce that ifixit has been acquired by apple ifixit e mail of april 1 2014 web version external links edit official website ifixit on google play ifixit android package at the f droid repository retrieved from https 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