Re:Apple’s repair kill switch hasn’t been activated yet
by tinus_hn on Sunday October 07, 2018 @05:01AM
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A major difference is that Apple does not sell parts to anyone who is not a licensed repair partner. All these screens you can put in your phone are fakes, refurbished or parts of stolen phones.
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Re:Apple’s repair kill switch hasn’t been activated yet
by alkonaut on Sunday October 07, 2018 @11:45AM
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This is a good point: iphones are easily serviced physically but you may not get the parts.
There have also been rumors that some parts would not be replaceable unless you used original parts but I have never had any problems with “original” parts (eg refurb screen with new 3rd party glass), obviously if a phone required parts one could not buy it can’t be considered user serviceable at all.
Re:Apple’s repair kill switch hasn’t been activated yet
by koffiezet on Thursday October 11, 2018 @08:44AM
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Apple even issued an iOS update once to address incompatibility issues with 3rd party replacement displays...
Re:Apple’s repair kill switch hasn’t been activated yet
by colejohnson66 on Sunday October 07, 2018 @12:19PM
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MacRumors did a good write up on the “underground” repair ecosystem. Third party screens are almost always not color calibrated, etc.
https://www.macrumors.com/2018/08/14/inside-the-iphone-repai...