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Apple Bans Teardown Specialists iFixit For Opening Apple TV

Not only was their app taken down, but iFixit also lost their developer account.

 

Seems that iFixit’s move of tearing down the yet to be launched new Apple TV has cost them a hand and a leg. The Australian teardown site known for its quality teardowns of a number of devices (apart from Apple products) has fallen prey to Apple’s terms and conditions.

All of this happened after iFixit opened up an Apple TV unit and the new Siri Remote which was sent across by Apple.

iFixit claims that they were well aware that Apple would penalise them, for prying open its newest device, but little did they know that things would get so bad. They assumed that Apple already knew the nature of their business (tearing down stuff) and would keep that in mind, before sending devices across.

After opening up and posting a teardown of the Apple TV, the specialists received an email from Apple mentioning that they had violated Apple’s T & C’s and that their developer account along with the app was now banned.

Apple’ attempts to exercise control over its ecosystem and devices has been an uphill battle lately. A few years ago, the Cupertino giant even managed to convince the Copyright Office to make it punishable by law (5 years imprisonment) to jailbreak your iPad. Also attached to it comes a $500,000 fine. Their attempts to apply the same to the iPhone however failed.

As for iFixit, they saw Apple’s email will not cost them much, because they have been focussing on their mobile website off late and the iOS app was pretty-much neglected and old.

While showing the stick is one thing, everyone takes software hacking seriously as it could lead to unimaginable losses for those who provide paid content. Coming to iTunes, such losses could be massive and Apple keeps a sharp eye on those looking to pry it open.

Talking about hardware, Apple has always been shy about revealing the specs of its mobile devices, these however cannot steer clear of benchmark tools that somehow reveal the number of cores and other details.

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