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by theonemind 2782 days ago
Any specific examples?
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Yes.

How many do you want?

Here, he said that Apple puts a chip to break MacBooks after 3 years.

https://youtu.be/1AcEt073Uds?t=1m

Here, he says that "Apple" (actually a Customs office) sent a letter to him to pay for batteries that were legitimate, later, on Reddit, he admitted he bought fake batteries from China that had Apple logos (and therefore, should be, as they did) caught by the customs (because saying otherwise would get him in jail), his friends at Reddit, deleted the comments, but there are still copies of what he said:

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/9pow06/louis_rossman...

Also, in his video, he says that Apple makes products "vintage" or "obsolete" after 4 or 5 years.

The newest "vintage" Apple product in late 2018, is from 2011:

https://support.apple.com/HT201624

Chinese sellers are often unscrupulous and liars. Louis Rossmann instructed the sellers to remove the logo and they did not, as they could not care less about spending effort doing what the customers wants since it means they won't make more money. Yes, they are that short sighted. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXXQnyWRSSg
Chinese sellers know what their costumers want. And that is an Apple logo, so third party repairmen can say it's genuine.