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Can you provide a reference for this? My web search didn't find a result.

by rnk 3y ago

ClumsyPilot 3y ago
Look up Lewis Rossman, he runs a repair shop and complains all the time about this
- hef19898 3y ago
  And he is one of the worst eigjt-to-repair advocates there are, given how often he even gets the most basic stuff wrong when it allows to create attention.
  - shinryuu 3y ago
    What is a better advocate that you'd recommend
  - iancmceachern 3y ago
    He certainly the most well known. I actually don't know of any others, do you?
  - dns_snek 3y ago
    > how often he even gets the most basic stuff wrong Such as? That's an outlandish claim unless you have receipts to back it up. He does get things wrong occasionally, he's only human after all, but he tends to publish very public retractions which is more than can be said for professional journalists.
    - rfoo 3y ago
      https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36148696 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36148696
      - dns_snek 3y ago
        You'll have to elaborate. Are you trying to convince me that the lead developer of Graphene (strcat) harassing Rossmann over a tame Youtube comment somehow reflects badly on Louis? That's certainly a take, but not one that I can ever agree with.
hrrsn 3y ago
Many components in an iPhone are paired to the logic board from the factory, so if they need to be replaced you have no choice but to go down the Apple sanctioned repair path (although the third party industry goes to great lengths to work around it). Some components, like the display, will show a warning notification in iOS for weeks and disable features like True Tone and auto-brightness if swapped with a third party part. Other components such as the cameras can't even be swapped between 100% genuine iPhones. https://www.ifixit.com/News/82867/iphone-15-teardown-reveals-software-lockdown https://www.ifixit.com/News/82867/iphone-15-teardown-reveals... The iPhone 6 disabled Touch ID when the home button was replaced but it'd still function fine as a button - until you restored the phone, which would fall over with an arbitrary error code forcing you to take the phone in to Apple for repair. There was a lot of backlash before they caved and fixed the update process: https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/feb/05/error-53-apple-iphone-software-update-handset-worthless-third-party-repair https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/feb/05/error-53-apple...

Can you provide a reference for this? My web search didn't find a result.

by rnk 3y ago

Can you provide a reference for this? My web search didn't find a result.

ClumsyPilot 3y ago

Look up Lewis Rossman, he runs a repair shop and complains all the time about this

hef19898 3y ago
And he is one of the worst eigjt-to-repair advocates there are, given how often he even gets the most basic stuff wrong when it allows to create attention.
- shinryuu 3y ago
  What is a better advocate that you'd recommend
- iancmceachern 3y ago
  He certainly the most well known. I actually don't know of any others, do you?
- dns_snek 3y ago
  > how often he even gets the most basic stuff wrong Such as? That's an outlandish claim unless you have receipts to back it up. He does get things wrong occasionally, he's only human after all, but he tends to publish very public retractions which is more than can be said for professional journalists.
  - rfoo 3y ago
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36148696 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36148696
    - dns_snek 3y ago
      You'll have to elaborate. Are you trying to convince me that the lead developer of Graphene (strcat) harassing Rossmann over a tame Youtube comment somehow reflects badly on Louis? That's certainly a take, but not one that I can ever agree with.

hrrsn 3y ago

Many components in an iPhone are paired to the logic board from the factory, so if they need to be replaced you have no choice but to go down the Apple sanctioned repair path (although the third party industry goes to great lengths to work around it). Some components, like the display, will show a warning notification in iOS for weeks and disable features like True Tone and auto-brightness if swapped with a third party part. Other components such as the cameras can't even be swapped between 100% genuine iPhones. https://www.ifixit.com/News/82867/iphone-15-teardown-reveals-software-lockdown https://www.ifixit.com/News/82867/iphone-15-teardown-reveals... The iPhone 6 disabled Touch ID when the home button was replaced but it'd still function fine as a button - until you restored the phone, which would fall over with an arbitrary error code forcing you to take the phone in to Apple for repair. There was a lot of backlash before they caved and fixed the update process: https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/feb/05/error-53-apple-iphone-software-update-handset-worthless-third-party-repair https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/feb/05/error-53-apple...