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This isn’t a thing currently. (I run repair shops and the #1 thing we do is fix iPhone screens.) Independent, non-Apple-authorized repair shops do significant e

This isn’t a thing currently. (I run repair shops and the #1 thing we do is fix iPhone screens.) Independent, non-Apple-authorized repair shops do significant enough volume that Apple has been forced to fix anything that trended toward this. Exception: The home button on iPhone 5s and above cannot be replaced by anyone except Apple. If third parties replace it, Touch ID won’t work. On iPhone 7/8, the button won’t work at all. However, it doesn’t brick your phone.

muzika 8y ago
Reason: this prevents someone from opening your phone and replacing the home button with the one that has been trained on someone else’s fingers (or hacked to work with any fingerprint?) please correct me if this is wrong.
- sjwright 8y ago
  As an iPhone owner, I'm glad that this part has this restriction. I don't mind paying a little bit more for repairing parts that are integral to the security of my phone, because the security of my phone is important to me. It's worth a LOT more than the value of the phone itself. That bears repeating. The security of my phone is worth a lot more to me than the dollar value of the phone.
  - akvadrako 8y ago
    And this is why the government mandating repairability is dangerous - it infringes on the consumer's freedom to buy locked down products.
    - sjwright 8y ago
      I hope you're not being sarcastic, because I wholeheartedly agree. Consumers should be allowed to have choice, and that includes choices that some people think are wrong. I do think that there's some middle ground between where we are now and where the Right To Repair people are advocating for. Right To Repair should absolutely apply to mechanical devices. And maybe it should even apply to most electronics. But it should not force manufacturers to distribute tools that can "repair" security related features of its devices.

muzika 8y ago

Reason: this prevents someone from opening your phone and replacing the home button with the one that has been trained on someone else’s fingers (or hacked to work with any fingerprint?) please correct me if this is wrong.

sjwright 8y ago
As an iPhone owner, I'm glad that this part has this restriction. I don't mind paying a little bit more for repairing parts that are integral to the security of my phone, because the security of my phone is important to me. It's worth a LOT more than the value of the phone itself. That bears repeating. The security of my phone is worth a lot more to me than the dollar value of the phone.
- akvadrako 8y ago
  And this is why the government mandating repairability is dangerous - it infringes on the consumer's freedom to buy locked down products.
  - sjwright 8y ago
    I hope you're not being sarcastic, because I wholeheartedly agree. Consumers should be allowed to have choice, and that includes choices that some people think are wrong. I do think that there's some middle ground between where we are now and where the Right To Repair people are advocating for. Right To Repair should absolutely apply to mechanical devices. And maybe it should even apply to most electronics. But it should not force manufacturers to distribute tools that can "repair" security related features of its devices.