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When you sell an old iPhone, the first thing you do is turn off the iCloud bound feature, so someone else can activate it. There should be a method to do the s
by mig39 3y ago
When you sell an old iPhone, the first thing you do is turn off the iCloud bound feature, so someone else can activate it.
There should be a method to do the same for parts.
ie: I broke my phone, it's not functional at all. I should be able to sell it for parts. But I can't. Because the parts are tied to a particular device ID?
- bzzzt 3y agoIt's the other way around: the phone only wants to talk to the parts it shipped with. Not with some knock-off battery that will also be dead in 6 months or TFT replacement screen for an OLED phone.
- b112 3y agoThat's a false equivalency. Phones are also rejecting perfectly good parts, not the parts you cited. That's the whole problem here, and you try to make it seem as if it's about crappy parts not working. It's not. At all. Never has been.
- dpkonofa 3y agoIn nearly every case this has been claimed, it’s a part that has some security functionality or a part like a display or battery that requires some kind of calibration. Maybe they should put more effort into making that calibration easier but I don’t think anyone that currently uses their devices would trade that if it means the quality of the calibration or the security of the device goes down.
- b112 3y agoThis presumes Apple isn't lying through their teeth, claiming it is about security, or calibration, when it isn't.
- dpkonofa 3y agoExcept it is. What part on the phone can't be replaced? What is Apple lying about? Even if you don't calibrate the parts, the phone is still usable, you just don't get the features of the calibration - battery status/level, Touch ID, Face ID, etc. Can you give me an example of what you're referring to? A part that prevents use and doesn't require calibration or a part that Apple is lying about - either works.
- microtherion 3y agoThat would make iPhones more attractive for theft, since someone else could then also break down your iPhone and sell it for parts.
- Nextgrid 3y agoOnly if they can coerce you to release the lock. Which does happen occasionally (that’s how large-scale crime gangs currently do it, by sending phishing texts/emails in an attempt to get the user’s Apple credentials) but it still raises the cost of the attack dramatically.
- microtherion 3y agoNo, that is the current situation, that a stolen iPhone has very little value due to the lock. If it could be broken down into reusable parts, as the post I was responding to suggested, you could break down stolen iPhones and make money that way.
- tzs 3y agoI bet that in most cases you'd make more if you got the broken phone repaired and then sold the now working phone.