If you meant my previous comment, I clearly phrased it as my own person opinion?
Considering you were so adamant on asking a source for the other person’s theory, and were so sure of your own, that you must have proof of it, right?
If it was indeed as you say, and that the large majority of passing readers indeed perceived it as such, then the previous comment would have been downvoted into 'dead' status a while ago.
Since it hasn't, then that's proof enough.
And downvoting here doesn’t happen nearly as often or for the reasons you think they do. This isn’t Reddit. Things don’t just get downvoted because people disagree with your opinion.
Then there's nothing in dispute?
You still haven’t provided a source for that claim of yours. If you consider the other comment as fact to the point where you corrected it, then yours is just as much.
Also, next time, maybe keep track of the people you are replying to.
In reality, nobody knows why Apple is doing it except the people who made the decisions nor would it really be possible to trace the parts, but it’s far more likely that it comes from the many devices that can be salvaged for parts than it coming from some black market operation coming from the factory.