I've had similar experiences with part suppliers like this, especially in the display assembly area. Not on the scale of what Apple does, but enough to shut us

I've had similar experiences with part suppliers like this, especially in the display assembly area. Not on the scale of what Apple does, but enough to shut us down. One great example was the assembly supplier changing the entire captouch chip because the last one ran out and the new one was "close enough". Not close enough for our kernel to recognize it and work correctly. Every time some "RPi alternate part?" thread pops up and everyone starts fawning over the $1 Linux app cores like AllWinner and RockChip and MediaTek all I can think is "yeah, they're going to burn you too if you try to put these into a 3 or 5-year design, because they will fuck you over without thinking twice.