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> Forget harvesting parts—which is a huge part of most independent repair and recycling businesses.

Isn't that also why most stolen phones end up in SE Asia where they're disassembled for parts?

The parts talk to each other so not really for the last generation or two.

Isn't that what this is all about, though? The parts talk to each other, so they can't be disassembled and sold off—but since they talk to each other, it makes it harder to get them working after a repair?

Yes but they’re useless in a Chinese chop shop. You can’t Frankenstein the parts together.

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