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  • Apple's iPhone parts pairing is making the company billions

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    Xed said:
    I have no problem with this. I want my Apple product to work exactly as it was designed, and a sub-par part could compromise a lot. For example, what if a camera or Touch ID sensor pays a part in causing the security protections to fail? Data could be lost/stolen and who get the blame? Me as a consumer because I cheaped out? The scond-rate part manufacturer? Or Apple? (hint... one of those three has a lot more money than the other two, and the lawyers know it.) 
    I'm a little torn on this matter. Recently I had a cracked display on an iPhone. I was given the option for a "real" display or a bad Chinese knockoff that will look OK but is really only good for a trade-in or less than ethical resale to another user, I do like knowing that authenticate components are being used.

    The choice isn't between a real part and a bad Chinese knock-off: the choice is between a new Apple supplied part and a perfectly functional part culled from an iPhone which was otherwise dead.

    But Apple says you can't have that perfectly good part and stops you using it through parts-locking. That's not protecting you, it's because Apple doesn't make any money from it. And so that perfectly functioning screen goes into the endless mountain of e-waste, the one which Apple claims to care so much about in its fancy videos.
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