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They rip them apart and use the non-serialized components as repair parts. If apple didn't try to overcharge for and restrict repair parts this would be less of a thing.
Aren't a lot of the parts married together though? Like, you can't just replace a fingerprint sensor without throwing errors.
Nah they have a good amount of replaceable parts on the inside. I used to repair iPhones a lot and the worst part was just the tiny components
Activation lock is designed to prevent reuse of stolen parts like this. Don’t know how successful this is, what components it’s tied to, and it doesn’t work on older models.
I’ve changed out fingerprint scanners and mostly just peripherals like the speakers and jacks and things like that. The board itself is pretty much locked down with nothing you can replace other than maybe a few components like a capacitor or something and even now they’re becoming increasingly just disposable unfortunately
If you don’t contact Apple to get an official screen replacement for your phone it will automatically disable FaceID among other features.
Well that tracks with the devices becoming more and more disposable
The key phrase here is “used to”. They’ve locked everything down in the past few years. Even the fucking battery is serialized and paired now.
For sure, someone else linked a more recent ifixit and yeah, right to repair is just getting nonexistent. I embrace the hopeful coming of more and more hardware for Linux
Maybe in USDystopia, but the EU is going after Pear for that.