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Re:One man’s fight for the right to repair broken MacBooks by chrisseaton on Sunday May 23, 2021 @05:33PM (#27258772)
> I mean complete assemblies like iPhone displays. As far as I know, there's no "legitimate" source for those

So how are legitimate high street shops in the west doing it? You can’t convince me every town in the UK has a criminal operation working in the open doing screen replacements?

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Re:One man’s fight for the right to repair broken MacBooks by peteretep on Sunday May 23, 2021 @09:47PM (#27260386)
https://www.alibaba.com/trade/search?SearchText=iphone+repla...

the only way you'd get the plod even vaguely interested would be if these arrived in boxes that claimed they were genuine parts, and even then...

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Re:One man’s fight for the right to repair broken MacBooks by someguydave on Sunday May 23, 2021 @07:43PM (#27259668)
apple authorized stores and retailers can buy modules or send them to apple
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Re:One man’s fight for the right to repair broken MacBooks by chrisseaton on Sunday May 23, 2021 @07:56PM (#27259736)
They clearly aren't sending them to Apple, because they do it while you wait.

And they don't claim to be authorised in any way. I would have thought if they were they'd make a big deal of that.

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