> Maintainability is a feature, so to speak. Yes, but lets be clear, this is not lack of maintainability... this is very clearly _anti_maintainability, there i

> Maintainability is a feature, so to speak. Yes, but lets be clear, this is not lack of maintainability... this is very clearly _anti_maintainability, there is a big difference. There is nothing inherent to the hardware design here that makes replacing components impossible, just the addition of this one chip for the single purpose of preventing it. And it's not surprising, we all know Apple's position on Unofficial or user repair options.