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Which is why you can buy so many apple parts on the grey market in China already? Either Apple doesn’t care, the Chinese government doesn’t care, or they canno
by dogma1138 6y ago
Which is why you can buy so many apple parts on the grey market in China already?
Either Apple doesn’t care, the Chinese government doesn’t care, or they cannot stop the sellers and likely a combination of all of the above.
- justicezyx 6y agoAre there parents on apple parts?
- dogma1138 6y agoYou can buy Apple SoCs in bulk if you know where to look. Same goes for touchid and faceid sensors you may have issues with the Apple “genuine hardware” checks so some features would not work but most repair shops have the reset toolkit already which somewhat bypasses that. Patents protect someone from copying your invention, these parts come from the same suppliers but are manufactured during ghost shifts, skimmed from the main shifts or are rejects that failed to meet Apple’s standards but are still mostly functional (it’s also not uncommon to mark functioning parts as rejects to skim off the top). I don’t think people realize just how fishy the supply chain in China is even for big players.