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Re:How the iPhone 16's electrically-released adhesive works by beeboobaa3 on Monday September 23, 2024 @11:37AM (#41627262)
Do you really think that nearly half of the price of an iphone is the screen? How come competitors are able to offer screens at 1/3rd the price?

Keep in mind that apple is intentionally killing the third party market. You cannot make a third party screen for an iphone that behaves the same as a regular screen, the iphone firmware will detect this and prevent it.

https://youtu.be/8s7NmMl_-yg?t=803

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Re:How the iPhone 16's electrically-released adhesive works by Kirby64 on Monday September 23, 2024 @11:51AM (#41627405)
Directly from Apple the screens are closer to 25-30%, depending on the phone. And what competitor? You can’t even buy a screen directly from Samsung. Closest I see is the pixel series via ifixit, which truly do seem to cost about the same as the apple parts. Maybe a bit cheaper, but also the pixel displays are not quite as nice as iPhone ones.
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Re:How the iPhone 16's electrically-released adhesive works by beeboobaa3 on Tuesday September 24, 2024 @11:53AM (#41637905)
Most competitors are repaired with screens scavenged from other devices. Which is not possible with Apple devices, because of the hardware lock.
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Re:How the iPhone 16's electrically-released adhesive works by Kirby64 on Tuesday September 24, 2024 @12:07PM (#41638063)
Except, it is? iOS 18 allows this natively now. And even before that, you could still use scavenged screens, it just would give you the “unable to validate” pop up.
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