>And they are stopping me from trying to open it, it's questionable if I legally can open it. In the context of consumer electronics, in what scenario is it le

>And they are stopping me from trying to open it, it's questionable if I legally can open it. In the context of consumer electronics, in what scenario is it legally questionable if you can modify your own device? This whole argument about ownership is really weak. It amounts to "a manufacturer, given a design choice, chose an option that made the product more difficult to self-repair / mod / root / run Linux on". You don't own your phone any less because the manufacturer chose to glue it together rather than use screws.