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$800 to repair cracked glass and $2400 to repair "other damage". Make it make sense, Apple.

How this can make sense: They have a process for exchanging the cover glass, they don’t have a process for exchanging anything else, meaning you will always get a replacement device.

$2400 is just the price for the device minus the profit margin (would be a 31% margin, which fits with Apple‘s typical margins).

That's what I thought at first, but the teardown revealed a lot of different parts internally, more than I've come to expect from Apple products. And the only absurdly breakable part seemed to be removing the glass.

Oh, I don’t want to claim that it‘s not repairable, I’m just saying that for now they only have procedures in place for the front glass.

Doesn’t mean they won’t establish procedures for other repairs in the future or find ways to reuse parts in refurbished (repair replacement) devices in the future.

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