iFixit is known among tech hardware enthusiasts for their great repair guides, tools, teardowns and active work in fighting for right to repair. Coincidentally, Apple is perhaps also known as one of the big antagonists in the aforementioned fight for the right to repair. Unsurprisingly then that iFixit’s latest teardown was equal parts satire and a jab at Cupertino.
Their teardown actually begins as a teaser for their MacBook Pro teardown, but as iFixit’s Director of Content Operations Craig Lloyd puts it, they got their second teardown team to work on the Apple Polishing Cloth. iFixit’s first impressions was that it’s identical to the inner linings of the iPad Smart Cover with its layer of microfiber cloth having a hint of fuzziness, akin to Alcantara. And then they tore it apart, to find that it’s “two cloths glued together” so if you think about it, it’s actually quite a bargain as you’re getting two polishing cloths, each at just RM49.50.
They didn’t stop there though. The iFixit teardown team is known to be meticulous in their work, and so put both a standard cleaning cloth and the Apple Polishing Cloth under the microscope’s lens. They find that while the plain old cleaning cloth only features your boring ‘plebian’ microfiber, the Apple Polishing Cloth has miniscule fibers woven together so beautifully that it’s worthy of being cleaned itself.
And then you’ll also find a thin line in the shape of ‘mankind’s foundational fruit’, the apple. Their caption for the microscopic close up of the Apple Polishing Cloth? Tim Cook’s Toilet Paper.
Furthermore, as is always the case with any iFixit teardown, we get a score on their repairability scale, which unsurprisingly the Apple Polishing Cloth scores a zero on. It perhaps goes without saying that their “teardown” isn’t to be taken seriously, and it’s mostly just a little bit of fun from the good folks over at iFixit. If you’d like to check out their full Apple Polishing Cloth teardown, you can check it out on their website.
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