iDevice Ithaca

Specialties

The BEST choice for Ithaca iPhone repair. At iDevice Ithaca we offer high quality iPhone, iPod, Macbook, iPad, Tablet and Computer repair at a fraction of apple store costs. Don’t throw it away.

Custom color changes, part modifications, part replacement, hardware and software upgrades, as well as providing up-​to-​date industry news. No job is too large or too small.

History

Established in 2012.

The last twenty years have been marked by a cheap and available goods consumer purchasing mentality, exacerbated by corporate profit structures that rely on constant model tweaks and improvements. Said «innovations» require the purchase of a new device in order to drive sales. This problem began its evolution into a creeping crises with the development of sophisticated hand held devices requiring Surface Mounted Technology practices to produce. Because of the increasingly small scale and precision production necessities inherent in the process, the SMT assembly line production methodology was born. This removed the human element from production and shifted it to assembly. Initially, corporations like Samsung and Apple had to stand behind the products bearing their label, to satisfy consumer demand. Highly trained repair personnel were maintained for the repair of these «expensive» and highly sophisticated devices.

Surface Mounted Devices have a typical 3−10% failure rate coming off t

Meet the Business Owner

Glenn S.

Business Owner

.Roughly 5 million devices are disposed of each year in the US with an average cost to the consumer of $ 250. A repair would have cost ¼.

Those devices are largely disposed of improperly, most polluting landfills, with only a handful of parts protected by Federal Regulation.

Literally hundreds of millions of dollars are represented by over stock from over production right now in Apple inventory, alone.

The street level management of technology is virtually non-​existent allowing any company to charge what it likes for SMT devices creating a balloon of technology price inflation. This is harming the individual consumer and long term economic viability of the country, while exponentially increasing corporate profits.