• potatopotato@sh.itjust.works
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    8 days ago

    They rip them apart and use the non-serialized components as repair parts. If apple didn’t try to overcharge for and restrict repair parts this would be less of a thing.

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      8 days ago

      Aren’t a lot of the parts married together though? Like, you can’t just replace a fingerprint sensor without throwing errors.