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Re:Face ID stops working if you replace the iPhone 13 screen... by progbits on Sunday September 26, 2021 @03:21PM (#28663759)
Remember back when there were those posts about camera swap breaking face id all the apologists came out defending it, saying all the repair concerns about batteries/screens/... were slippery slope fear mongering?

Yeah... It is not slippery slope, it is slowly boiling the frog.

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Re:Face ID stops working if you replace the iPhone 13 screen... by chews on Monday September 27, 2021 @11:38AM (#28672013)
This frog was in the pot on day one, I've been at this since it was just an aluminum and plastic iPhone.

Apple's engineering culture in non inclusive of those not working at Apple. Period.

They did the world a solid with LLVM, not argument there, but their stance changes with time and soon enough that may not be true for their other software teams, ala Swift on other platforms, but rest assured... once there is a market they capture it. By theft of implementation, or future breaking changes to the api, or changing the hardware to make it non-replaceable.

Your newest Macbook is a fancy iPad with a keyboard and the ability to sideload software.

Apple allways takes their ball home.

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