Not in the slightest. For much of the older hardware, there either are trivial or non-existent blocks from Apple in place, and the hardware market surrounding t

Not in the slightest. For much of the older hardware, there either are trivial or non-existent blocks from Apple in place, and the hardware market surrounding things like iPhones is littered with fly-by-night shops intentionally obscuring the truth of the products' origin. On Amazon, eBay, aliexpress, etc, a good majority of iPhone batteries are simply mislabeled in terms of their capacity, in some cases you can just peel the label they attached to the battery off to find the real capacity -- so you get what you paid for, but you were promise something with a much higher capacity or different performance. That is my complaint, and that isn't Apple's fault. Apple is not making these poor knock-off manufacturers lie about their quality and capabilities of their replacement parts. I've bought plenty of third-party parts for Apple products (fans, reproduction heatsinks, panels, SSDs) that were just fine. But there is still a large market for cheap parts advertised as being equivalent to the OEM parts, but actually being significantly worse. I'm not sure how that is Apple's fault that the third party manufacturers decide to lie about their products. Apple is no saint in my mind, as much as I like their products, but this just isn't a fair accusation.