Apple is switching to an unusual and rare type of exterior screw for its iPhone and other mobile products, making it much harder for users to take them apart and fool around with the internals, ...

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Apple's new "Pentalobular" screw for iPhone 4s, MacBook Pros and MacBook Airs stymies do-it-yourselfers from making repairs. Apple is screwing with screws, again. If you want to remove the outer ...

According to iFixit.com, a website specialising in gadget teardowns and DIY repair manuals, Apple is surreptitiously switching to a type of rare, tamper-resistant screw on newly-manufactured iPhone 4 ...

The new MacBook Air is Apple’s least self-repairable notebook yet, thoroughly bolted down by proprietary Torx screws, but if you thought that was just an anomaly, think again: Apple’s so averse to you ...

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULSUuWlo9Lw&w=670&h=401] Apple is screwing your iPhone: what the issue is is that Apple is quietly moving to a new kind of ...