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This is cool, no doubt about that. And fascinating due to the sheer complexity and amount of fine detail work required. But. Uh. For all that work, Why not upgr
by ShakataGaNai 2y ago
This is cool, no doubt about that. And fascinating due to the sheer complexity and amount of fine detail work required. But. Uh. For all that work, Why not upgrade it to an amount of storage you couldn’t otherwise get? Or at least max it out?
- usui 2y ago-
- mrb 2y agoBut Apple sells a 1TB version of the iPhone 15 Pro. Are you saying the 1TB version uses a different motherboard?
- usui 2y agoI was mistaken—yes it would be possible to upgrade to a 1TB NAND. I'm going to guess it wasn't cost-effective to source or it was hard to find an iCloud-locked/activation-locked 1TB iPhone 15 Pro/Pro Max motherboard.
- pquki4 2y agoBecause... When you bought the phone 2 years ago you didn't anticipate you would need more than 128GB of storage?
- jijijijij 2y agoI think they mean with the new chip, not the initial purchase. Eg. putting 4TB into the phone instead of 500GB.
- xnyan 2y ago>Why not upgrade it to an amount of storage you couldn’t otherwise get He's running a repair shop, so used market. >But. Uh. For all that work The difference between 128GB and 512GB on the used iPhone 15 market is $200+. he's probably buying the 512GB NAND IC for $25-40. If you're a repair shop you already have all the needed tools and jigs except the maybe the CNC mill, which is about $3-4K. The only things we don't know is how long it takes and the failure rate, but the process (especially the CNC milling part) looks pretty consistent and repeatable, so I'd not be surprised to learn he's profiting off this.