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  • Will No One Think Of The Children? Apple Secretly Replaces Standard iPhone Screws With Oddly Shaped Ones

    John Biggs

    Biggs is the East Coast Editor of TechCrunch. Biggs has written for the New York Times, InSync, USA Weekend, Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Money and a number of other outlets on technology and wristwatches. He is the former editor-in-chief of Gizmodo.com and lives in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. You can Tweet him here and G+ him here. Email him directly at... → Learn More

    Thursday, January 20th, 2011

    Apple is slowly but inexorably changing the standard four-lobed Philips screws with “pentalobe” screws in its new iPhone 4 models and swaps them out when you take the iPhones into the Genius Bar for service. This aggression will not stand, man!

    Luckily, the lads at iFixIt found a solution: they’re now selling pentalobe drivers in a iPhone Liberation Kit and, better yet, they hired a hot presenter to talk about the whole thing on video.

    Even if you don’t find the prospect of pentalobes that egregious, just remember: It’s clear that this is the first step towards a totalitarian state run by oligarchs.

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