> Apple devices weren't made difficult to repair because Apple actively despised repairers.
IIRC the front panel uses DRM to stop unauthorized screen replacement.
IIRC the front panel uses DRM to stop unauthorized screen replacement.
Foxconn workers reportedly stole US$43 million worth of iPhone parts to make new phones https://www.scmp.com/abacus/news-bites/article/3042987/foxco...
It's amazing to me that developers, resellers etc seem to forget this.
It is debatable whether the devices that are restricted have any security impact to begin with (the fingerprint or face recognition sensors should just be untrusted input devices with the actual comparison happening inside the secure element of the CPU - compromising this device wouldn't give you anything you don't already have), but either way, even if there was a security impact, you can always let the user choose by giving them the (per-device) keys to override said security.
0.002% of our customers need security against sophisticated hackers who have the capability to hijack a repair service and replace it with a spying custom made iphone screen replacement.
Let’s make screen repairs 5-7x more expensive for 100% of our customers !
That will get the hackers !
Yea, right.... If you’re that paranoid about your security, go to an authorized apple repair centre which doesn’t bother repairing the parts and just charges you to replace the entire circuitry.
No one’s stopping you. Leave the rest of us, alone from this.
Encryption issue is about banning it altogether.
This is about user choice in terms of repairability.
This excuse is more to the equivalent of , we are banning all communication in plaintext or any encryption standard, except aes-256.
Everyone has different requirements, choice and deserve the freedom.
Companies dont get to excuse away freedom and choice, in the name of “security”.
Companies don't owe you freedom and choice. If you don't like their product, if you don't like their concern for your freedom and choice, don't buy it.
We were critiquing a product, now you’re saying, companies dont owe us the right to criticise their product, and that we must move elsewhere instead of complaining.
one second you’re saying “it’s for our benefit”, the next, you want us to stop using the product, because we aren’t “owed anything”.
Arguments with a dishonest interlocutor are frightfully boring. Reply as you see fit, but I’m closing this thread and not looking at it again.
If people with that kind of resources are out to get you, they can simply lift your fingerprints from elsewhere. A transparent tape on the home button would probably be enough.
Maybe that isn’t so important to you, but it’s a very practical concern for many people.
I really have a strong feeling that some folks have Stockholm syndrome or something.
If someone tried to sell whole iPhones assembled entirely from parts leaked from Apple's supply chain, it ought to seem obvious to anyone that this is wrong. Why is the principle any different when it's not an entire iPhone?
Why would it be any different for Apple?
Hmmm, I always wanted a Ferrari.
If you want a Ferrari, go buy one. They have quite long waiting lists from what I've heard.
edit: In order not to be completely off topic: Apple might have just the same problems with parts stolen from their suppliers but since every single iPhone needs to be activated, I'm very sure they would be able to catch "iPhones made entirely from stolen parts". So this is clearly not it. The fact that they don't sell anything will probably make this whole thing quite worse because if you could buy a genuine display for 250$ from Apple, why would you really buy from anyone else? That market would of course exist but it would be much much smaller.
I would not expect them to sell motherboards or for exampe face id sensors without some kind of pairing. But batteries and LCDs? Come on!
They are doing it just to stick it to anyone who wants to repair their device. Quite sad when you think about the origins of that company :-(
My guess is Apple started doing all this pairing stuff due to some security threat they saw before we did.
Apple does somewhat care about users privacy (I like that very much) but this is really not it. And it goes for the battery as well. And vibration motor. And rear facing camera. All these are just plain and simple middle finger to third party repair shops. You could argue about FaceID sensor and motherboard and I would agree with security concerns, but that's pretty much it.
Even broken logic board is worth quite a lot so this argument is really more of a wishfull thinking than a reality.