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Where do you think all the parts that get used for iPhone repairs come from? The ones Apple spends so much time having seized at customs. You break your screen

Where do you think all the parts that get used for iPhone repairs come from? The ones Apple spends so much time having seized at customs. You break your screen on your iPhone, a cheap repair is 150 or so, right? The screen probably cost the repairer about 50. The camera breaks, another 50. Lighting port breaks. The speaker breaks. Realistically the average stolen iPhone will be bought by someone at 10-50 bucks depending on various things. Then sold on depending on if it got bricked or not. Not bricked it goes to other countries to be used as an iPhone with a resell value of a few hundred bucks. Bricked, it then goes to another country and broken down to parts and resold by companies who sell parts in bulk.

theshrike79 3y ago
There are people literally on the streets in China selling parts. I've watched my share of Strange Parts videos =) But both can't be true: 1) Apple is evil for locking components so they can't be swapped 2) Every 2-bit criminal knows A Guy who can re-use any part of a stolen iPhone without issues
- that_guy_iain 3y ago
  > 2) Every 2-bit criminal knows A Guy who can re-use any part of a stolen iPhone without issues A junkie sells it to someone who buys these. That person sells it on and so on. So eventually you end up with a company that buys a broken iphones in bulk to recycle the parts to resell. So not every 2-bit criminals knows a guy who can re-use the parts, they know a guy who'll buy the phone and they don't care after that. People who are stealing phones are stealing them for a reason, they can sell them for drug money. But also, it's only newer phones that have this issue (I suspect jailbreaking will allow them so that is probably also getting done) so older iPhones are still up for grabs. But as you can see here https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Faz043borltp51.jpg https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fa... they do seem to still work but give off a message

theshrike79 3y ago

There are people literally on the streets in China selling parts. I've watched my share of Strange Parts videos =) But both can't be true: 1) Apple is evil for locking components so they can't be swapped 2) Every 2-bit criminal knows A Guy who can re-use any part of a stolen iPhone without issues

that_guy_iain 3y ago
> 2) Every 2-bit criminal knows A Guy who can re-use any part of a stolen iPhone without issues A junkie sells it to someone who buys these. That person sells it on and so on. So eventually you end up with a company that buys a broken iphones in bulk to recycle the parts to resell. So not every 2-bit criminals knows a guy who can re-use the parts, they know a guy who'll buy the phone and they don't care after that. People who are stealing phones are stealing them for a reason, they can sell them for drug money. But also, it's only newer phones that have this issue (I suspect jailbreaking will allow them so that is probably also getting done) so older iPhones are still up for grabs. But as you can see here https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Faz043borltp51.jpg https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fa... they do seem to still work but give off a message