| > People really need to use their brain more. You included, perhaps > Swapping to a unpaired display makes the display still work plenty fine with some limitations. Apple has to walk a tight rope here. Every change they make is risky and you could end up bricking legitimate devices. It's undeniable that the limitation they've applied makes stealing the parts less desirable. You can't easily pass off a device made with stolen parts as completely genuine which reduces the resale value in the most lucrative second hand markets. Every generation they're slowly moving more in this direction, while also balancing these restrictions against repair-ability and risk of unintended bricking. This effort is creating a lot of work for Apple. I seriously doubt it's worth the trouble just to make repairing the devices harder. The money they make from that is peanuts. What they gain from customers being happy that their phones are less worth stealing, and the price they get for a fully genuine phone in the second hand market when they upgrade, is probably much more important for driving the sale of new phones. > EVERY SINGLE DECISION that Apple makes is for revenue gathering Of course. Why do you say that as if it's news, or as if it's something not every single person here knows already? Yet the fact is that sometimes these decisions overlap with the genuine interests of the customers, either because of customer feedback, increase/decrease in sales, or from competition, or due to regulations. And I personally think this effort is something that heavily overlaps with consumer interests. Especially now that they're putting more effort into making pairing/calibration of swapped parts easier. |