• The Hobbyist
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    1 year ago

    What does this mean regarding their components pairing? Will they still force indepent repair shops to go through apple to validate a repair by requesting a new pairing for the replaced part? Will it be free? Will it depend on whether the part is a genuine apple part? A salvaged one? A third party part?

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      1 year ago

      you now have the right to repair with only their parts, which is progress, albeit minimal and expensive

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        I’m a little confused. How can Apple force you only to use their parts? For instance, what’s stopping me from getting a replacement screen from a third-party?

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          Firmware and Hardware ID shenanigans. Also, look up what John Deere is doing, that’ll give you a good idea of what’s possible there.

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            Is apple doing what John Deere does? I haven’t tried any particularly advanced stuff. Some stuff like the processor I don’t really see how you’d be able to have an iphone without using apple’s lineup but maybe I’m just ignorant of what’s possible here. Like you can’t just stick an Intel/AMD into a modern Mac and you can’t stick a silicon chip into your Lenovo and expect the computers to run right, right?

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          marrying and validation tech which will not allow the device to work with any replacement part not coded and unlocked to work with it