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A fun hobby and project, but I'm guessing nearly all those parts are knock offs and of very cheap quality.
by nodesocket 10y ago
A fun hobby and project, but I'm guessing nearly all those parts are knock offs and of very cheap quality.
- jjbiotech 10y agoBecause quality increases when Apple repackages Chinese components in a shiny white case.
- esmi 10y agoDefinitely. Apple should add many QA steps filtering out the vast majority of bad parts. First there would be incoming QA on any received shipments. And any well run assembly line contains many check steps to make sure the unit has good constituent parts. This way you don't burn good parts farther down the line on a unit that was never going to pass. Then there is out going inspection and burn in testing. All that testing increases overall quality and value.
- jjbiotech 10y agoQA/QC isn't exclusive to large companies. DIY hobbyists can do the exact same thing.
- esmi 10y agoIn theory that's possible true but in practice on an iPhone I highly doubt a DIY can do "the exact same thing". For one there are important ports we can't access, like JTAG testing the SOC. And there is a whole other factory OS which we have no idea what it does and why.
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- lacampbell 10y agoNail on the head. Some people have a very naive view of manufacturing, QC and supply chains.
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- strictnein 10y agoYeah, found this amusing from the write up: > Battery – These are everywhere, and _really_ cheap. Like $5 USD cheap. No clue if it’s real, but I was told it is, and it looks like it is.
- semi-extrinsic 10y agoGiven the large amount of iPhones that get smashed and then sent to recycling (in Shenzhen) loong before the battery is near EoL, my guess is these are likely genuine, used Apple batteries.
- chipset 10y agoIf you read his blog post he mentions that the logic board is recycled and he thinks that alot of iphone 6 parts come from recycled/broken phones. quote from the blog about the logic board: "The one I bought is refurbished/repaired, almost undoubtedly from a real, legitimately purchased phone made by Apple that was recycled at some point."
- robjan 10y agoA lot of phones stolen in the west are laundered just south of the border here in Hong Kong.
- iamdave 10y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGJ5cZnoodY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGJ5cZnoodY Really interesting documentary from Wired that tangentially touches on this mentality.