Apple’s repair kill switch hasn’t been activated yet

Post by shagen » Mon, Oct 08, 2018, 4:21 AM UTC

missjellyfish wrote: post #122

vbezhenar wrote: post #113

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I don't know about phones, but there are laptops which are relatively easy to disassemble and have replaceable parts. I, personally, would buy only those laptops if I would need one.

That is, until Lenovo decides that they want to have a say in what WiFi cards you can install. Fortunately IDA 7 Free and a Buspirate fixed that. Would be a shame if any PCIe cards would be accepted, wouldn‘t it... FYI, the patch was less than ten bytes long. Inconvenient non the less.

Post by SmellyGeekBoy » Mon, Oct 08, 2018, 10:40 AM UTC

TaylorGood wrote: post #14

I dropped my iPhone X with a front and back cover yet glass still broke on both sides. It happens, but thanks to the rear glass being welded to frame and new front glass technology it costs $828 to replace. Repair shops are charging more than Apple store. $279 for Front glass $549 for Rear glass

Post by acct1771 » Mon, Oct 08, 2018, 12:26 PM UTC

CountSessine wrote: post #145

_emacsomancer_ wrote: post #98

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That's simply not true. My Samsung Galaxy S5 has a removable battery and headphone jack AND it's waterproof.

@foota says 'easier', not 'possible'. And the S6 doesn't have a removable battery, so what does that tell you about how Samsung felt about the engineering compromises they had to make with the S5 and all the rubber grommet-ing around its removable battery?

Post by danaris » Mon, Oct 08, 2018, 12:54 PM UTC

sh87 wrote: post #129

brandonmenc wrote: post #127

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> So you've now paid for more storage than you need. Upfront. It's like an extra $150. Stretched out over 24 monthly payments. Big whoop. > Apple's solution is to go sync those gigs on Apple's cloud and keep paying a monthly fee for it. This is exactly what I do. Totally worth it. > You can't swap it and if the phone dies, you've probably lost everything or it's going to cost you dear to get that data out. You can do…

Did Apple have to kill the card slot to support iCloud ? No. Why then? Lock-in, that's why. Like someone else on this thread rightly said, Impracticality is the feature here and clearly intentional. Apple may have gained customers like yourself. They sure have lost customers like me.

Post by acct1771 » Mon, Oct 08, 2018, 1:40 PM UTC

xvector wrote: post #28

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Yes, and no: - Yes in the sense that the glass needs to be glued (or rather taped as a double-sided tape is used) to create a waterproof seal as the small size of these devices does not allow for a more traditional clamp fit using a rubber gasket. - No because it does not have to be the main body of the device to which the glass is glued/taped. I use the Motorola Defy+ [1], an 8 year old water/dust/shockproof Android…

> the glass is glued to a frame which in turn is attached to the phone using screws I think it would be tragic if the iPhone looked like those Motorola devices. That thing looks hideous. This is strictly against Apple's design philosophy, and for good reason.