On December 10th, the tech-media 9to5Mac released an article yesterday, December 9, reporting that the iFixit launch was a "stealing and repair team abroad." FixBot of AI MAINTENANCE ASSISTANT,The aim is to significantly lower the equipment maintenance threshold through artificial intelligence technology。
1AI quotes Boven that the core strength of FixBot lies in its strong interactive diagnostic capability, where users can automatically analyse causes and provide solutions by speaking about problems encountered or taking photos of equipment failures。
The application integrates visual principles maps, professional guidance and expert-level troubleshooting techniques. In an effort to address the pain of “failure” in the maintenance of users, FoxBot, in particular, enhanced the “free guide” to achieve a real interactive maintenance experience through the step-by-step direction of voice。
Different from the generic AI model, FixBot's intelligence is derived from the large iFixit vertical field database. The company’s expert team has spent more than 20 years building the largest maintenance programme on the Internet, covering more than 72,000 products from smartphones (e.g. iPhone) to motorcycles。
FixBot is able to quickly retrieve and access these validated resources, ensure that maintenance advice is provided with consistent, high-quality standards, and avoids the risk of a “one-size-fits-all” that may result from generic AI。
In the business model, FixBot will adopt a two-tiered strategy of "free + pay." Basic functionality is available to ordinary users, while advanced functionality, including “step-by-step speech guidance” and “visual + voice-in-depth diagnosis”, is paid for。
The application introduced a Battery Health Warning, which allows users to view the battery state and the number of cycles. However, the experience of this functionality is somewhat cumbersome, and users need to manually enter data such as original capacity, rated cycles, etc., and suggest sharing analytical data to improve accuracy。
According to External AppleInsider, this function replicates, to a large extent, the "battery health" function that already exists in the iOS set-up, and the primary system already provides maximum capacity and peak performance testing. Thus, for users who would have had “cell anxiety”, this may simply add an additional notice interference rather than a substantial functional supplement。
iFixit has not yet published a specific subscription price, but in order to promote the service, all paid high-level functions are now available to users free of charge. Users with iPhone are now able to download the app directly and experience this “maintenance black technology” before the charge policy is officially landed。