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Hardware people are crafty, they find ways to transfer and combine working parts. The glass replacement(keeping the original LCD) I got for the 6S is not a proc

by mrtksn 5y ago

Hardware people are crafty, they find ways to transfer and combine working parts. The glass replacement(keeping the original LCD) I got for the 6S is not a procedure provided by Apple. Guess who doesn’t care? The repair shop that bought a machine from China for separating and re-assembly of the Glass and LCD. Screen replacement is 50$, glass replacement is 30$. iPhone 13 is very new, give it a few years and the hardware people will leverage the desire of not spending 1000$ on a new phone when the current one works fine except for that broken part.

ChuckNorris89 5y ago
And how will the crafty HW people replace the SSD storage on my 2020 Macbok if it bites the dust?
- mrtksn 5y ago
  By changing chips. There are already procedures for fun stuff like upgrading the RAM on the non-retina MacBook Airs to 16GB. Apple never offered 16GB version off that laptop but you can have it[0]. if there’s a demand there would be a response. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgEfMzMxX5E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgEfMzMxX5E
  - ChuckNorris89 5y ago
    You clearly don't have a clue how modern Apple HW is built and why stuff that you're talking about on old Apple HW just won't work anymore on the machines build today. I'm talking about 2020 devices where you can't just "change the chips" and hope it works like in the 2015 model from the video you posted. Modern Apple devices aren't repairable anymore.
    - mrtksn 5y ago
      I would love to be enlightened about the new physics that Apple is using which is out of reach to the other engineers. /s Anyway, people are crafty and engineering is not an Apple-exclusive trade. believe it or not, Apple can’t do anything about the laws of physics.
      - ChuckNorris89 5y ago
        >I would love to be enlightened about the new physics that Apple is using but is out of reach for the other engineers. Watch Luis Rosmann on youtube.
        mrtksn 5y ago
        I know Luis, he made a career of complaining that it's impossible to repair Apple devices when repairing Apple devices. Instead of watching videos and getting angry about Apple devices being impossible to repair, I get my Apple devices repaired when something breaks. Significantly more productive approach, you should try it.
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        ChuckNorris89 5y ago
        >I get my Apple devices repaired when something breaks Your old Apple devices, that are known to be vert easy to repair. You wouldn't be so confident with the latest gear. But why spoil it for you? Let's talk in a few year when you find it out the hard way on your own skin.
        mrtksn 5y ago
        Louis makes "Apple impossible to repair" videos since ever. It's not an iPhone 13 thing, give it a few year and you can claim that iPhone 17 impossible to repair, unlike the prehistoric iPhone 13. Here is a video from 2013, him complaining that Apple doesn't let people repair their products: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdlZ1HgFvxI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdlZ1HgFvxI He recently moved to a new larger shop in attempt to grew his Apple repair operations. Then had to move back to a smaller shop because as it turns out, it wasn't Apple who is ruining his repair business.
      - kuschku 5y ago
        > I would love to be enlightened about the new physics that Apple is using which is out of reach to the other engineers. That’s known as private-public key crypto with keys burnt into efuses on-die on the SoC. You can’t get around that (except for that one dude in Shenzhen who just drills into the SoC and solders wires by hand which happen to hit the right spots). But generally, no regular third party repair shop will find a way around this.
time0ut 5y ago
Only if Apple wants to let them as far as I have seen. The software won't even let you swap screens between iPhone 13s. Maybe people will find a work around, but it seems like Apple is trying its hardest to prevent it.
- eyelidlessness 5y ago
  And yet they authorize shops to perform these repairs. They’re not trying to prevent repairs, they’re trying to ensure repairs use Apple-supplied parts. Which, sure, you may object to that… but it’s very different from saying they’re preventing repairs full stop. And there’s very little chance such an effort would do anything other than destroy good will.

by mrtksn 5y ago

ChuckNorris89 5y ago

And how will the crafty HW people replace the SSD storage on my 2020 Macbok if it bites the dust?

mrtksn 5y ago
By changing chips. There are already procedures for fun stuff like upgrading the RAM on the non-retina MacBook Airs to 16GB. Apple never offered 16GB version off that laptop but you can have it[0]. if there’s a demand there would be a response. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgEfMzMxX5E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgEfMzMxX5E
- ChuckNorris89 5y ago
  You clearly don't have a clue how modern Apple HW is built and why stuff that you're talking about on old Apple HW just won't work anymore on the machines build today. I'm talking about 2020 devices where you can't just "change the chips" and hope it works like in the 2015 model from the video you posted. Modern Apple devices aren't repairable anymore.
  - mrtksn 5y ago
    I would love to be enlightened about the new physics that Apple is using which is out of reach to the other engineers. /s Anyway, people are crafty and engineering is not an Apple-exclusive trade. believe it or not, Apple can’t do anything about the laws of physics.
    - ChuckNorris89 5y ago
      >I would love to be enlightened about the new physics that Apple is using but is out of reach for the other engineers. Watch Luis Rosmann on youtube.
      - mrtksn 5y ago
        I know Luis, he made a career of complaining that it's impossible to repair Apple devices when repairing Apple devices. Instead of watching videos and getting angry about Apple devices being impossible to repair, I get my Apple devices repaired when something breaks. Significantly more productive approach, you should try it.
        deleted 5y ago
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        ChuckNorris89 5y ago
        >I get my Apple devices repaired when something breaks Your old Apple devices, that are known to be vert easy to repair. You wouldn't be so confident with the latest gear. But why spoil it for you? Let's talk in a few year when you find it out the hard way on your own skin.
        mrtksn 5y ago
        Louis makes "Apple impossible to repair" videos since ever. It's not an iPhone 13 thing, give it a few year and you can claim that iPhone 17 impossible to repair, unlike the prehistoric iPhone 13. Here is a video from 2013, him complaining that Apple doesn't let people repair their products: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdlZ1HgFvxI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdlZ1HgFvxI He recently moved to a new larger shop in attempt to grew his Apple repair operations. Then had to move back to a smaller shop because as it turns out, it wasn't Apple who is ruining his repair business.
    - kuschku 5y ago
      > I would love to be enlightened about the new physics that Apple is using which is out of reach to the other engineers. That’s known as private-public key crypto with keys burnt into efuses on-die on the SoC. You can’t get around that (except for that one dude in Shenzhen who just drills into the SoC and solders wires by hand which happen to hit the right spots). But generally, no regular third party repair shop will find a way around this.

time0ut 5y ago

Only if Apple wants to let them as far as I have seen. The software won't even let you swap screens between iPhone 13s. Maybe people will find a work around, but it seems like Apple is trying its hardest to prevent it.

eyelidlessness 5y ago
And yet they authorize shops to perform these repairs. They’re not trying to prevent repairs, they’re trying to ensure repairs use Apple-supplied parts. Which, sure, you may object to that… but it’s very different from saying they’re preventing repairs full stop. And there’s very little chance such an effort would do anything other than destroy good will.