> Why? Apple really pressures manufacturers to squeeze out its profit margin as much as possible. When they say "overproduce Apple parts" that's implying they'

> Why? Apple really pressures manufacturers to squeeze out its profit margin as much as possible. When they say "overproduce Apple parts" that's implying they're overproducing genuine Apple parts. The factory doing that isn't going to have any of the expenses associated with designing and testing that part, because Apple is paying for that, and they'll be able to sell the "extra" parts for less money or with a larger margin than what Apple could. It's like selling photocopies of a book and claiming it's ok. If the factories want to use their tooling to manufacture competing parts that have been reverse engineered from Apple's parts, I'm fine with that. If they're actually manufacturing and selling genuine Apple parts to third parties that's not ok IMO.