Initially, Liam brought it to a phone repair store. Oddly, the clerk told Liam the phone was not worth saving (this we both found ironic coming from a phone repair guy). But Liam, being the thoughtful lad he is, decided to buy a battery and do the replacement himself. So we got together in the garage and set out to perform the first step of the repair: removing the battery. Liam sent a lovely reflection on the experience which is included below along with three pictures from the afternoon. I have an old dinning table, a simple thing really, four legs and a flat surface. The table belonged to my Mother who went through a mid century modern phase. The table is a lovely thing in its detailing chamfered legs, crisp scandi inspired lines and of course boatloads of memories. Despite the clear reverence I have for the table it has been through a lot with at least two major fixes.
The first being by my father and I after inappropriate storage of the table lead to water damage (still visible today). The second because of the hard use that comes with the life of a college student always on the move. The table now sits in my kitchen acting as sort of island. I have plans for a third future refurbishment to finally bring the table back to the condition it might have enjoyed when my mother first purchased it some fifty years ago in the 1970s Most recently the table was used to re-assemble an iPhone that suffered a battery malfunction. This was a repair I started with Scarlett in her garage and finished with my old table and a $39 ifixit kit. This iPhone is from 2017. It is only 6 years old yet it is obsolete. I had held no nostalgia for it yet it stores all of my memories, neatly organized chronologically.
I don’t understand how it works, like I do the table. I wonder if it is understanding or if the reader will let me use ‘tactility’ that lets us build nostalgia, reverence and true memory in association with objects. The phone itself is mass-produced not unlike the table yet at a different scale. Not in the tens of thousands but rather in the millions. The interface easily integrates into my being; cyborg operation instructions on table refinishing beamed into my kitchen, my brain. Yet this tool to many is a consumable thing to be throw away. A device designed to last the length of a cellular contract. It is not something to be repaired or loved. But we should--we should demand that these material objects have some sort of longevity. Nothing lasts forever but things should last a lifetime. IMG Disassembled iPhone with screws (incorrectly) labelled I guess we should understand our tools, or at least be allowed to have others understand our tools and repair them for us. Finally maybe it’s the message this time and not the medium: that software can never have that tactile feedback unless you understand it and can augment it much like I have repaired my mothers table. I feel it is worth mentioning that we cooked a delicious lunch together in preparation for the repair: sizzled tofu with sushi rice, veg, and spicy mayo.
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