Fix it yourself

Apple delivered an early holiday gift to the eco-conscious and the do-it-yourselfers: it said it would soon begin selling the parts, tools and instructions for people to do their own iPhone repairs.

It was a major victory for the “right to repair” movement, which demanded that tech manufacturers provide the necessary components and manuals for customers to fix their own smartphones, tablets and computers.

Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon and others have long fought proposed legislation that would make repair resources publicly available. But the movement gained momentum this summer when the US Federal Trade Commission said it would ramp up law enforcement against tech firms that made it difficult to fix their gadgets.