How I Made My Own iPhone in China [video]

Re:How I Made My Own iPhone in China [video] by ben174 on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @04:26PM (#14101400)

Great experiment, and it looks like a lot of fun. But to be practical, the amount of time + effort + risk required to pull this of would offset any amount of money saved.

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Re:How I Made My Own iPhone in China [video] by superplussed on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @04:42PM (#14101555)

The monetization made off of Youtube should offset all of that and then some.

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Re:How I Made My Own iPhone in China [video] by bspn on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @05:09PM (#14101778)

Yeah, I can imagine him turning this into something similar to the "What's Inside" Family" where the goal isn't so much cost-saving vs exploring how things are made.

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Re:How I Made My Own iPhone in China [video] by zuck9 on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @04:35PM (#14101493)

What's the risk?

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Re:How I Made My Own iPhone in China [video] by strictnein on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @04:45PM (#14101576)

His $5 battery exploding

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Re:How I Made My Own iPhone in China [video] by sja on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @04:39PM (#14101524)

Presumably the risk of screwing up and needing to repurchase certain parts and/or spend more time creating it.

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Re:How I Made My Own iPhone in China [video] by 0x0 on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @06:40PM (#14102394)

I don't know, is it possible that activating iOS might be rejected because the logic board serial number is blacklisted by Apple for any number of reasons?

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Re:How I Made My Own iPhone in China [video] by ben174 on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @05:23PM (#14101887)

Risk of buying a useless or counterfeit part that doesn't end up working in his build.

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