@mayer - Let me be a bit of a Janus here.
IFIXIT has been a great spark of inspiration! The message is clear and people are listening. Manufactures like Apple have made great leaps into using renewable energy, getting away from ecology unfriendly materials (like Mercury) and setting up recycling as a mandate.
But, many have failed to address repairability! Even with the score card IFIXIT posts people seem not to care as much as we do. Often I see people post responses that blame the manufacturer for some failing or another instead of accepting their own failing by not doing the research upfront.
Jumping back here, some of it I can understand as speed in manufacturing as well as product saturation is where the profits are. Can they make systems which can be both sellable and repairable? Thats the rub here ... How can we drive that?
As it now stands the direction Apple and the others appear to be aiming for $1000 throwaway systems! Can Apple or even the others survive in that landscape? Are we able to as well?
Then that gets into the parts issues you brought forward. While I would like IFIXIT to offer more I'm not sure it makes economical sense for them. Maybe acting as a storefront similar on how many of the department stores work makes better sense. Here the given product is given standing so lets say OWC thermal sensor is listed on the HD page in the guide that points to OWC's page and the sale of the part is within OWC's domain but IFIXIT gets something for the sale. IFIXIT wins here as they get something for the re-direct and OWC gets the added business.
