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What a shitty company. Time and time again they shaft consumers yet people buy into the ecosystem. Marketing works unfortunately.
1 phone that’s not thrown away is 1000s of parts saved.
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There are simple ways to allow hardware changes without losing security. One straightforward idea: Once the phone is unlocked (e.g. by pin code) allow the user to authorize the new hardware. This is effectively what Apple does already. The usual difficulties with asking users to make security choices don't really apply here: Physical changes to the hardware are requires, so security fatigue isn't as big a deal. Maybe…
One straightforward idea: Once the phone is unlocked (e.g. by pin code) allow the user to authorize the new hardware. I don't think most users are capable of auditing their generic hardware to be sure it is free of backdoors.
My girlfriend's phone is stollen and last location is in China. I'm sure they are selling the parts and the motherboard is useless. If those parts wouldn't work with other phones this theft would be less incentivized. Serial lock is a good thing if the owner had the option to unlock their phone's parts on Apple's website to be usable for repairs etc.
Why not give the owner the option to lock the parts instead? I bet a lot of people don't even consider potential reuse when they intentionally discard their phone.
I don't mean to be the devil's advocate, but I'm pretty sure that disabling Face ID when replacing the camera with a generic one is primarily a measure to thwart potential hardware-based attacks...
I don't mean to be the devil's advocate, but I'm pretty sure that disabling Face ID when replacing the camera with a generic one is primarily a measure to thwart potential hardware-based attacks...
If apple thinks it's an issue make it clear before letting me activate it that they no longer guarantee any safety (which they don't anyway, that's the joke, you already signed that way in the user agreement).
My ISP will provide me with a router and full support. If I change the settings or flash firmware they will no longer support it. However, if I let them restore the factory firmware and config they will again support it.
It's not hard and apple's motive here is clearly maximize stock value, nothing else.
I remember how Apple had been turning magnets in the iPad covers so that reversed polarity prevented them from being compatible with iPad of previous generation despite having exact same form factor and size. Such a pro consumer corpo. :)
My girlfriend's phone is stollen and last location is in China. I'm sure they are selling the parts and the motherboard is useless. If those parts wouldn't work with other phones this theft would be less incentivized. Serial lock is a good thing if the owner had the option to unlock their phone's parts on Apple's website to be usable for repairs etc.
Scraping stolen goods for parts doesn't happen because it can be done. It is viable because manufacturers make access to spare parts artificially difficult or expensive. Locking a device to serial is adding insult to injury when companies like Apple decide to campaign against Right to Repair. It must be said that Apple made strides towards making repairing phones easier, but as long as counterfeit or stolen parts rem…
The point of serialization is precisely to make stolen parts unviable economically, so you’ve painted yourself into a bit of a corner there.
> It is viable because manufacturers make access to spare parts artificially difficult or expensive.
After paying a shop to repair an iPhone with a generic screen, I believe genuine parts cost more because they are better, not due to artificial scarcity. Not only were the colors off, the battery life was less with the new screen.