3 ms·

>Along with this Apple has a history of having customs destroy third party refurbish parts when being brought into the US. Apple doesn't "have" customs do anyt

>Along with this Apple has a history of having customs destroy third party refurbish parts when being brought into the US. Apple doesn't "have" customs do anything. Customs enforces the law. Those parts are counterfeits, and importing them is illegal. If they're not off-the-shelf, Apple has exclusive deals with their suppliers and forbids them from selling those parts to anyone else. Whatever you're buying as a "3rd party refurbish part" is either a fake, defective because it failed QA, or excess bulk that Apple didn't purchase. It's usually one of the former. Talk with some people in the device manufacturing biz about this - I've heard stories about suppliers getting customer support calls about QA issues when it turns out the distributor for the parts was selling both legit and counterfeits without the supplier or manufacturer knowing! And this is a tricky issue - if I manufacture something abroad you're damn sure I want the feds to help prevent counterfeits from being imported. Doesn't matter if it's the final product or part of the supply chain. And in as a supplier, you're not going to manufacture something longer than you make money off it, and the repair volumes don't justify anything. That said, I think a middle ground here could be a limits on exclusive deals between suppliers and manufacturers, and stricter "use it or lose it" policies on IP held by suppliers. So if Apple isn't buying batteries from FooBar corp anymore, they should be able to sell the batteries the previously did to repair shops stateside. Nothing nefarious there.

genmud 7y ago
Not sure if you know this or not, but I assume you aren't willingly misrepresenting the situation. People will ship GENUINE/ORIGINAL apple parts, with lets say a cracked piece of glass, but otherwise good screen assembly, back to an OEM to have them replace the glass. When the REPAIRED part is returned to the company who sent them to an OEM, customs will destroy them as counterfeit, even though they aren't counterfeit parts, just repaired. I'm oversimplifying, but if repairing something makes it a counterfeit, then the same logic could be applied to a dell computer that had its HD replaced while overseas and should be destroyed, using that logic.

genmud 7y ago

Not sure if you know this or not, but I assume you aren't willingly misrepresenting the situation. People will ship GENUINE/ORIGINAL apple parts, with lets say a cracked piece of glass, but otherwise good screen assembly, back to an OEM to have them replace the glass. When the REPAIRED part is returned to the company who sent them to an OEM, customs will destroy them as counterfeit, even though they aren't counterfeit parts, just repaired. I'm oversimplifying, but if repairing something makes it a counterfeit, then the same logic could be applied to a dell computer that had its HD replaced while overseas and should be destroyed, using that logic.