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Re:Apple announces Self Service Repair by Reason077 on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @01:50PM (#29257206)
> "The legend going around, is that the iPhone's screen was changed from plastic to glass a week before the announcement"

It's not a legend. Apple even mentioned the switch to glass in a press release at the time [1]. The original prototype iPhone shown at the announcement event had a plastic screen, but the version that shipped 6 months later had glass:

[1] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2007/06/18iPhone-Delivers-Up-...

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Re:Apple announces Self Service Repair by KennyBlanken on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @02:17PM (#29257570)
A plastic screen would have been a complete disaster. Apparently none of you owned an iPod pre-iPhone days. The screens got scratched if you looked at them funny.
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Re:Apple announces Self Service Repair by Reason077 on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @02:18PM (#29257588)
The stainless steel back case on the original iPod was worse than the screen in my recollection. Scratched so easily.
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Re:Apple announces Self Service Repair by tzs on Thursday November 18, 2021 @12:57PM (#29268367)
I once wanted to try using the backs of iPods as part of a keyless entry system. We all carried iPods anyway, and everyone's iPod had a different scratch pattern on back, so have a system where you hold your iPod back up to a camera and enter a PIN. The scratch pattern tells the system who is requesting entry. If they enter the PIN for that person let 'em in.
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Re:Apple announces Self Service Repair by jen729w on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @03:49PM (#29258642)
Good job you didn’t need to look ~~at~~ through it all day in order to use the product then!
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