You Paid $1k for an iPhone, but Apple Still Controls It
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#2Gift Article link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/12/technology/iphone-repair-...
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#4This control severely limits the utility of stolen iPhones, which is a good thing for me as an iPhone owner.
There are other phones that consumers can choose that don’t have this pairing. But this pairing of parts is one of the reasons people choose and iPhone.
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#6This control severely limits the utility of stolen iPhones, which is a good thing for me as an iPhone owner. There are other phones that consumers can choose that don’t have this pairing. But this pairing of parts is one of the reasons people choose and iPhone.
This is such an absurd excuse. The competing android devices are not exactly known for being a more popular target for theft.
This is just a copout pushed by Apple to justify obviously bad practices, and due to their reality distortion field, you guys eat it up.
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#7Anecdotal, but back in those "good old days" when you could get a screen replaced in 5 mins like this article said, on the three occasions I did this I ended up with the worst cheap Chinese knock off screens I have ever seen, the last time I ended up spending even more to get a genuine one.
Hard to avoid this with small businesses when they need to make the enough of a margin at those cheaper retail prices.
I'm sure this is fine for a lot of people, but I'm much happier to pay for AppleCare+ and get components that keep the experience that I've paid a grand for.
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#8This control severely limits the utility of stolen iPhones, which is a good thing for me as an iPhone owner. There are other phones that consumers can choose that don’t have this pairing. But this pairing of parts is one of the reasons people choose and iPhone.
Why doesn't apple allow the owner to choose to decouple the pairing?
It's telling why they dont.
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#9This control severely limits the utility of stolen iPhones, which is a good thing for me as an iPhone owner. There are other phones that consumers can choose that don’t have this pairing. But this pairing of parts is one of the reasons people choose and iPhone.
It limits the utility of all iphones, stolen or not. It's not like you have a switch to deactivate it for yourself.
And for the consumer choice, I don't see Apple making any advertising about how anti repair they are, strange. I doubt most phone owners know about the pairing issues.
Re: You Paid $1k for an iPhone, but Apple Still Controls It
#10Anecdotal, but back in those "good old days" when you could get a screen replaced in 5 mins like this article said, on the three occasions I did this I ended up with the worst cheap Chinese knock off screens I have ever seen, the last time I ended up spending even more to get a genuine one. Hard to avoid this with small businesses when they need to make the enough of a margin at those cheaper retail prices. I'm sure…
Of course they don't use the same quality screens, because then the replacement would cost as much as it does in an apple store.