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I don't think they ever do. Even "officially" replacing the battery on those MacBooks where it's glued in meant replacing the entire top case along with it. I'm 99.999% sure they would also replace the entire motherboard rather than the actual $0.05 component on it that failed.

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Their smaller / cheaper iphone line (SE?) is made mostly from recycled components I heard

Probably their usual greenwashing stuff like "100% recycled aluminum"

I meant from previous generation iPhones of the same form factor - it used exactly the same screen and camera

I suspect they mean "recycled" as in "we reuse existing assembly lines / stocks of parts" and not "we take apart old iphone 8s to make SEs". That doesnt seem feasible from a quality assurance POV

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