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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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=15 April 2012 )〕 iFixit product teardowns of new Apple products are carried〔(''How iFixit Uses Teardowns As Marketing 3.0'', by Leander Kahney, Cult of Mac Sep. 18, 2009, retrieved July 2, 2010 )〕 by ''PC World'',〔(''17 inch MacBook Pro gets torn to pieces'', PC World article )〕 the Mac Observer,〔(Mac Observer article, 1 February 2008 )〕 NetworkWorld and other publications.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=15 April 2012 )〕 Founder Kyle Wiens aims to reduce electronic waste by teaching people to repair their own gear〔(New York Times Tech Talk Podcast: D.I.Y. Electronics Repair, cue 8:07, April 28, 2010, J. D. Biersdorfer )〕 and offering tools, parts, and a forum to discuss repairs.〔(New York Times Personal Tech: Q&A September 22, 2010, J. D. Biersdorfer )〕 In 2011, he travelled through Africa with a documentary team; a short film is in progress and stories of "fixers" met on the trip are posted on the company's activism-oriented blog, ifixit.org.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://ifixit.org/184/meet-saleh-egypts-master-car-mechanic/ )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://ifixit.org/187/inside-a-water-pump-repair-shop-in-kenya/ )〕 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://makeprojects.com/ )〕 In September 2015, Apple removed the iFixit app from the App Store in reaction to the company's publication of a teardown of an Apple TV (4th generation) and the developer account was also suspended.〔 ==Fairphone partnership== On April 3, 2014 iFixit announced a partnership with Fairphone〔''(iFixit and Fairphone – Fixing The Cell Phone Problem )'', IFixit e-mail of April 3, 2014 (web version)〕 (following an April 1 hoax that iFixit had partnered with Apple (''"iFixit – An Apple Company"'')〔''(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)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「IFixit」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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