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The key takeaway: all of the parts have serial numbers that are paired together, so if you replace any of the components, even with other genuine Apple ones tak
by josephcsible 4y ago
The key takeaway: all of the parts have serial numbers that are paired together, so if you replace any of the components, even with other genuine Apple ones taken from another identical iPhone, you'll lose some or all of the following functionality, depending on exactly which components they were: True Tone, Auto Brightness, Battery Health, FaceID, Portrait Mode, and Cinematic Mode. And while they claim it's for security that they disable FaceID, the rest are all completely indefensible.
- londons_explore 4y agoSomeone somewhere made a policy decision that they wanted to make it hard, but not impossible, to live with a Frankenstein phone. They totally could have had it refuse to boot... But they didn't. They also totally could have just had a warning dialogue on bootup, followed by full functionality... But again they didn't. I'd really like to see their rationale for the choice they made.
- RikNieu 4y agoProbably wanted to degrade user experience enough to make users just go to Apple, but not enough to attract regulator attention.
- Kim_Bruning 4y agoSomehow this feels like progress regressing by 2 centuries or more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interchangeable_parts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interchangeable_parts