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Re:Apple now strives to design and build products that last ... by mg96226 on Monday September 17, 2018 @12:31PM (#18007398)
No, it does not happen with the iPhone or most other Apple products. They are incredibly hostile to 3rd party repairers.

Apple is notoriously draconian about ensuring that 3rd parties are blocked from accessing schematics and repair manuals. I'm talking, they threaten lawsuits to anyone publishing schematics, and there is no legal way to obtain those schematics unless you're an Apple authorized repairer - in which case you'll never need them because your job is just to replace entire logic boards after minimal diagnostics. This creates enormous waste and costs a lot more than an actual repair would. In some cases they don't even do that and just tell the user tough shit, get a new device.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-NU7yOSElE

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Re:Apple now strives to design and build products that last ... by jnaina on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @06:21AM (#18013970)
>No, it does not happen with the iPhone or most other Apple products. They are incredibly hostile to 3rd party repairers.

Clearly you have not been to Asia. Plenty of 3rd party iPhone repair shops. Very easy to get batteries and cracked screens replaced.

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Re:Apple now strives to design and build products that last ... by adossi on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @02:48PM (#18018031)
I wager dollars to donuts that those "3rd party iPhone repair shops" are not authorized by Apple
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Re:Apple now strives to design and build products that last ... by coaxial on Monday September 17, 2018 @07:59PM (#18011191)
That video was fun, thank you.
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