> The screws aren't important as a barrier to repairability, but because they have no other purpose. Ah. From experience, the only thing that stopped me from d

> The screws aren't important as a barrier to repairability, but because they have no other purpose. Ah. From experience, the only thing that stopped me from disassembling things as a youngster that I couldn't have gotten back together were often unusual screws. In my mind, that's a more reasonable reason to use specialized screws, because they aren't more than a token barrier to actually repairing the device. Since I don't have access to Apple's internal design documents, I have no idea if that's actually their stated reason, but it makes more sense to me than malice on Apple's part.