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Re:Internal Documents Show Apple Is Capable of Implementing ... by eridius on Thursday March 28, 2019 @06:34PM (#19517325)
Measure that make it harder (but not impossible) for users to disassemble their devices serves to avoid people doing accidental damage (and voiding their warrantee). It's possible to get a pentalobe screwdriver, and anyone not willing to get one probably has no business opening up an Apple product.
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Re:Internal Documents Show Apple Is Capable of Implementing ... by darkpuma on Thursday March 28, 2019 @09:42PM (#19518436)
Yeah, countless businesses have been bankrupt by the mistake of using standard screws that regular plebs to violate their warranties. Apple simply can afford to take that kind of risk, their margins are very tight as it is!
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Re:Internal Documents Show Apple Is Capable of Implementing ... by eridius on Thursday March 28, 2019 @10:53PM (#19518758)
For those downvoting me, if you genuinely think that pentalobe screws are bad, can you please explain why someone who doesn't have access to a pentalobe screwdriver has even the slightest business opening up an iPhone?
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Re:Internal Documents Show Apple Is Capable of Implementing ... by programmer_dude on Friday March 29, 2019 @05:21AM (#19520167)
Wow circular logic much? So anyone without a pentalobe screwdriver is not qualified to replace a battery (for example)?
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Re:Internal Documents Show Apple Is Capable of Implementing ... by eridius on Friday March 29, 2019 @04:33PM (#19525387)
Other way around. Anyone qualified to replace a battery should have no difficulty getting their hands on a pentalobe screwdriver.

In fact, it would not surprise me in the least if vendors selling third-party iPhone batteries included pentalobe screwdrivers with the battery (or offered it as an add-on).

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