Re:iPhone 13 teardown and repair assessment [video]
by judge2020 on Sunday October 03, 2021 @10:25AM
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Well, imagine Tesla implements a feature to put a car in lost mode and it suddenly can't be driven, even with a key. At that point, the only thing the car thief could do is strip it for parts and sell them on ebay or the like.
Re:iPhone 13 teardown and repair assessment [video]
by makeitdouble on Monday October 04, 2021 @02:08AM
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To stay in the analogy, I see it more like being forbidden to open your car with the key fob because you had the door bumps straightened.
In our actual case, Apple isn't reacting to a lost mode request, and would be blocking any third party screen repair, under any circumstance.
To take the perennial car analogy, car theft is a widespread enough phenomenon, but we haven’t settled on breaking central functionalities each time a repair is done outside network.
To push a bit further, steeply lowering phone price would also critically deter theft, why not go that option if it’s that important ?