Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Will Labs do teardowns and durability testing?”.
Question here from luke hi linus, i do cell phone repair, probably a question. Luke yeah yeah yeah got him what’s going on luke classic luke uh, but i was also curious if, when labs is up and running fully there’ll, be any testing of durability of mobile devices or tear downs like ifixit, does i don’t think that we are going to Get into either of those um durability testing is not useful on a sample size of one and, quite frankly, it’s not even useful on a sample size of 10.. We showed back when we toured oneplus’s manufacturing facility that what it takes is specialized equipment, whether it’s for drops or whether it’s for tumbles, that is run on many many devices and they have the luxury of many many disposable devices to chuck into these things. That are not finished, quality right that might have engineering sample grade socs in them, for example, couldn’t sell. This is ready to test exactly or they could make dummy ones that have exactly the same body and they can investigate it for screen cracking without actually wasting hundreds and hundreds of dollars worth of internal hardware on them.
We just don’t. We don’t have that kind of a luxury and that’s the kind of thing that you know what hey three to five years from now. If the community said we want this, we might even create a system. Actually, this is a really good idea. We should write this down, but we could create a system where our community could could fund could specifically fund specific tests. They could say: hey uh, we want to see, we want to see 10 iphones in a tumble, dryer um, and then we would have basically build a mechanism where they could.
We could say like look we’re not going to we’re. No we’re not paying out of pocket for that there is. There is no way you’re, not getting your return, make up that 10 000 worth of iphones on this video or this article, or even just this data sheet right. It’S not happening, but if you guys really want to see it then sure yeah we’re into it uh.
We could even see manufacturers potentially funding. Something like that like if you’re a um. No, i don’t know that’d, be tough, that’d be tough like if i’m an otterbox – and i just said hey, i want independent third-party testing of how well the iphone holds up to this thing. There’S no way that they’re going to just write the check and walk away and not expect us to also test otterboxes, for example. So that’s man, that’s tough! Is that an acceptable thing as long as they don’t interfere with our data and they unders and as long as as part of our agreement, we basically say yeah. You got to understand that once you write the check, we’re publishing the data regardless of the outcome, i don’t think it’s bad to test otterbox.
I could see us doing it for ltt, but i don’t think that’s something that the lab would just do and publish the data. So that’s something where ltt could use the lab yeah. That’S where i would kind of draw the line there. That seems fair, yeah question here from william hi linus in one of your sorry, no i’ll get to that one sec.
As for ifixit, i think they do a great job. I don’t think we’d be contributing anything to that particular space. At this time low priority. We love, i fix it. .