We need to have a serious chat about iPhone repairability. We judged the phones of yesteryear by how easy they were to take apart—screws, glues, how hard it was…
Do you have any evidence that there's a pervasive effort from third party repair to mine your privacy for profit? I'd love to see it.
Also, fine, let's assume they have no way of knowing it's genuine. Why don't they release the tool to pair the OEM screens publicly? It'd only work on the real ones, and they have such a tool, so if it's actually about security, there's no reason not to.
Do you have any evidence that there's a pervasive effort from third party repair to mine your privacy for profit? I'd love to see it.
Also, fine, let's assume they have no way of knowing it's genuine. Why don't they release the tool to pair the OEM screens publicly? It'd only work on the real ones, and they have such a tool, so if it's actually about security, there's no reason not to.