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swings and round abouts… tbh i love this feature of apple hardware because it pretty much means there’s no point to stealing an iphone: you can’t even part it out and sell it in bits… i’ve left my phone in random places all the time and i’ve never been worried it’s going to get stolen
totally understand that people have the opposite POV though: that it’s your device and you should be able to do whatever you want with it, and that locking down parts is a method to ensure apple status in the loop with repairs and overpriced parts
i think both points of view are valid
I'm pretty sure any iPhone and it's parts are worth way more than any android. If you had a fully modular android phone that is easy to take apart it still wouldn't be worth much because there's no market for it since maybe a dozen people have that phone.
but like… there’s literally no market for apple parts because you can’t really use them for repairs or anything at all - it’s ewaste unless it’s in the original device, and the whole phone is ewaste unless it’s logged into the registered apple account - you can’t just wipe it or anything because of all the serial numbers etc