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Re:How the iPhone 16's electrically-released adhesive works by rangestransform on Tuesday September 24, 2024 @09:27AM (#41636227)
I don’t want spare parts from my stolen phone to work at all, let alone have degraded functionality. I will continue to support parts serialization
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Re:How the iPhone 16's electrically-released adhesive works by RandomThoughts3 on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @06:05AM (#41645631)
That's a complete red herring.

Parts serialization didn't make thievery of phones go down. How could it? It's thievery of opportunity. Do you really think an hypothetical thief which would be like "how damn the phone I just pickpocketed is an iPhone. Let me give it back I can't sell the parts" exist?

The only thing it does is allow Apple to keep parts price artificially high, business as usual for Apple.

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Re:How the iPhone 16's electrically-released adhesive works by rangestransform on Friday September 27, 2024 @04:42PM (#41675338)
spite is enough of a reason for me to want my phone to be worthless to a thief
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