“what do you want here? What’s the right thing?” Parts, and not having the thing artificially brick itself. These tools do no harm other than the indirect and

“what do you want here? What’s the right thing?” Parts, and not having the thing artificially brick itself. These tools do no harm other than the indirect and unprovable sort of harm suggested by the article, but they do no good either. They are irrelevant, in that lack of these tools is not what prevents repairing Apple products. What prevents repairing Apple products is Apple using the US government to seize harvested 2nd hand parts they no longer have any moral right to control at the border by lying and claiming they are counterfeit, forcing component makers to exclusive deals where they are not allowed to sell custom chips to anyone but Apple, and Apple doesn't sell them, and no other manufacturer can make them since they are proprietary without published specs. And artificially bricking devices for no actual techical or security reason. No one makes Apple do those things, and it costs Apple nothing to simply not do that. Well, nothing they have any right to in the first place.