So many lithium batteries in my house. Cheap ones are fire hazards. I like that apple is looking out for me so that if I go to any place for apple parts and be reasonably sure they made it hard for them to sell counterfeit parts.
The problem is they're not just preventing counterfeit or third party parts from working. If that was the case, it'd at least be understandable. They're also preventing legitimate and working parts that were transplanted from other Apple devices. They do this on purpose because they want you to pay $800 to replace the phone rather than $80 to replace the part at an independent repair shop.
Apple profits enough off of making people pay to replace their devices over minor, repairable damage that it's worth it for them to aggressively defend the practice with lawyers. Think how many people they must be fucking over for that to be the case.
Sorry, I should be fair. In some cases they do let you transplant parts from other phones. They just spam you with an iOS notification that says the part is suspect. This is not based on any internal quality measurement of the part or whether the part is an Apple part or not, but whether the part was signed off on by an Apple-certified technician. Because that's what matters: that Apple got paid the certification fee. Not whether the part is good or not.
If apple didn't go full asshole mode in making sure you can't buy genuine parts, you wouldn't have that issue.
Ffs, they even forbid factories from selling chips to anyone but them. If the $10 charging chip of an iPhone dies, you have two choices : buy a new phone (the apple way), or buy a charging case, rip the chip from it, and throw now useless battery of the charging case away.
Whether you want it if not, apple is the piece of shit here, especially in these days when reducing waste and consumption should
A repair shop literally lacks the ability to do anything else because of Apple. They will (or should) tell you up front what you're doing before you agree to the service. If there is agreement on both sides, why does Apple need to get involved?
Sorry, I should be fair. In some cases they do let you transplant parts from other phones. They just spam you with an iOS notification that says the part is suspect. This is not based on any internal quality measurement of the part or whether the part is an Apple part or not, but whether the part was signed off on by an Apple-certified technician. Because that's what matters: that Apple got paid the certification fee. Not whether the part is good or not.
It would be too expensive to put complicated authentication chips on each part. Instead they went for the simplest solution. ROM chips with nothing more then serial-numbers which are paired to the device at the factory. These chips could easily be dumped and spoofed so just because they have an authentic apple serial doesn't mean the part is genuine. An apple-certified shop has the tools to pair a new piece of hardware (otherwise they wouldn't be able to do any repairs) and that's why all the ominous terms
You can replace many parts in any device with any number of pieces. The problem is the warranty, security and privacy implications. If you can put in any screen or thumbprint reader or camera, you can easily subvert the security of the system.
With batteries it's even worse, you go to an 'authorized' repair person, they put in a cheap part from China (like that Louis Rossmann on YouTube does), the thing explodes and it's all Apple's fault. Apple had this happen several years ago, they were being blamed for M
That's more or less crap... spoofing a moving image of a face, a fingerprint, etc is actually much more difficult than it sounds. This is just Apple's excuse for consumer-unfriendly policies.
BTW - I also had a genuine MacBook charger (original with the laptop) that frayed and caught fire.
What you say is true. But as long as customers are uninformed, there is nothing you can do about it.
There are three parties, The Criminal, The Victim and The Enforcer. When V joins hands with E it is possible to prevent crime. Example theft, burglaries, etc
Enforcement is difficult when V does not cooperate with E. Example: If you consider prostitutes and drug addicts as victims of the crime, it is very difficult.
In this case, if you consider Apple users to be V, they cooperate with your nominal C. Till t
The only person who always got his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe.
Makes me even more confident when I buy apple (Score:0, Troll)
So many lithium batteries in my house. Cheap ones are fire hazards. I like that apple is looking out for me so that if I go to any place for apple parts and be reasonably sure they made it hard for them to sell counterfeit parts.
Re:Makes me even more confident when I buy apple (Score:5, Insightful)
Apple profits enough off of making people pay to replace their devices over minor, repairable damage that it's worth it for them to aggressively defend the practice with lawyers. Think how many people they must be fucking over for that to be the case.
Re:Makes me even more confident when I buy apple (Score:5, Insightful)
Re: Makes me even more confident when I buy apple (Score:2)
I donâ(TM)t think âoespamâ means what you think it does.
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Re: Makes me even more confident when I buy apple (Score:2)
Do youâ(TM)d rather not know that a repair shop just stuck a pulled part into your phone, didnâ(TM)t trll you, and sold it to you at list price?
Whatevs.
Re: Makes me even more confident when I buy appl (Score:1)
If apple didn't go full asshole mode in making sure you can't buy genuine parts, you wouldn't have that issue.
Ffs, they even forbid factories from selling chips to anyone but them. If the $10 charging chip of an iPhone dies, you have two choices : buy a new phone (the apple way), or buy a charging case, rip the chip from it, and throw now useless battery of the charging case away.
Whether you want it if not, apple is the piece of shit here, especially in these days when reducing waste and consumption should
Re: Makes me even more confident when I buy apple (Score:4)
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Sorry, I should be fair. In some cases they do let you transplant parts from other phones. They just spam you with an iOS notification that says the part is suspect. This is not based on any internal quality measurement of the part or whether the part is an Apple part or not, but whether the part was signed off on by an Apple-certified technician. Because that's what matters: that Apple got paid the certification fee. Not whether the part is good or not.
It would be too expensive to put complicated authentication chips on each part. Instead they went for the simplest solution. ROM chips with nothing more then serial-numbers which are paired to the device at the factory. These chips could easily be dumped and spoofed so just because they have an authentic apple serial doesn't mean the part is genuine. An apple-certified shop has the tools to pair a new piece of hardware (otherwise they wouldn't be able to do any repairs) and that's why all the ominous terms
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You can replace many parts in any device with any number of pieces. The problem is the warranty, security and privacy implications. If you can put in any screen or thumbprint reader or camera, you can easily subvert the security of the system.
With batteries it's even worse, you go to an 'authorized' repair person, they put in a cheap part from China (like that Louis Rossmann on YouTube does), the thing explodes and it's all Apple's fault. Apple had this happen several years ago, they were being blamed for M
Re:Makes me even more confident when I buy apple (Score:4, Informative)
That's more or less crap ... spoofing a moving image of a face, a fingerprint, etc is actually much more difficult than it sounds. This is just Apple's excuse for consumer-unfriendly policies.
BTW - I also had a genuine MacBook charger (original with the laptop) that frayed and caught fire.
FTFY (Score:0)
They're also preventing working parts that were transplanted from STOLEN Apple devices.
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And parts handled by people who wipe their behind using the wrong hand, not that it's any more relevant than your 'point'.
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There are three parties, The Criminal, The Victim and The Enforcer. When V joins hands with E it is possible to prevent crime. Example theft, burglaries, etc
Enforcement is difficult when V does not cooperate with E. Example: If you consider prostitutes and drug addicts as victims of the crime, it is very difficult.
In this case, if you consider Apple users to be V, they cooperate with your nominal C. Till t