quote from the blog about the logic board: "The one I bought is refurbished/repaired, almost undoubtedly from a real, legitimately purchased phone made by Apple that was recycled at some point."
Really interesting documentary from Wired that tangentially touches on this mentality.
Apple should add many QA steps filtering out the vast majority of bad parts. First there would be incoming QA on any received shipments. And any well run assembly line contains many check steps to make sure the unit has good constituent parts. This way you don't burn good parts farther down the line on a unit that was never going to pass. Then there is out going inspection and burn in testing.
All that testing increases overall quality and value.
> Battery β These are everywhere, and _really_ cheap. Like $5 USD cheap. No clue if itβs real, but I was told it is, and it looks like it is.