[brookst]

It's telling that you see this as a trial. Nobody else does; there is no defense or prosecution or any of that.

The reason Apple prompts for genuine parts is to devalue the stolen phone market. If repair shops could put in any old camera, there would be a lot more incentive to sell stolen phones to repair shops, therefore more incentive to steal phones, therefore more stolen phones.

Apple's a giant company. I have no emotional connection to them. But most of what we're talking about here makes sense from a business and even customer-friendly perspective, or at least as a reasonable tradeoff between ease/expense of repair and likelihood of having your phone stolen or pwned.

[realusername]

There's going to be a trial about this so yeah those excuses do matter, that's going to be hard for them to get their point across being so anti-repair during so many years.

For stolen parts, they could lock the parts if the device is locked, that's a solution against theft to resell parts but again, that's not what's being done either. It's becoming pretty hard to justify their bad practices.