A tech repair firm best known for smartphone fixes wants to be let loose on McDonald’s ice cream machines.
As its name suggests, iFixit has long been associated with Apple gadgets – and also partners with companies like Samsung and Google to provide replacement parts for their customers’ devices.
It is also known for posting “teardown” videos online, in which products are disassembled to show people how they work and how they can repair them at home.
It’s now made one such video for a McDonald’s ice cream machine and is calling for a change in US copyright law that would allow them to be fixed more easily.
There’s a law to stop McDonald’s ice cream machine repairs?
Yes, it’s called the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
This is designed to stop people from fixing commercial equipment protected by copyright law – in this case, McDonald’s ice cream machines.
These are made by a company called Taylor, and an agreement it has with the fast food chain means only it is allowed to fix them.
Another firm, Kytch, has reportedly made a product that can read the error codes the machines spit out, but iFixit claims they are banned from use in McDonald’s…
