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[ifixit] We Are Retroactively Dropping the iPhone’s Repairability Score::We need to have a serious chat about iPhone repairability. We judged the phones of yesteryear by how easy they were to take apart—screws, glues, how hard it was…

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Except they VIN lock everything. If you execute a screen swap on 2 brand new phones perfectly, the result is a crippled phone.

There’s plenty of underhanded tactics Apple employs.

Check out Hugh Jeffreys’ content on this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yep.. and they put those weird DRM locks on more and more components every new release.

I'd wager 80% of all new product design costs are purely apple researching how to make them even more consumer unfriendly and DRM laden.