[chii]

> meant extra material required to make it easy to change the battery.

it doesn't need to be easy, nor user-replacible. It just needs to be _replacible_ by a professional, with readily available equipment that you'd expect a repair shop to have. Make the parts available for purchase, or have the specs be open for third-party production.

But companies, such as apple, deliberately make their parts incompatible, even if salvaged from a different phone. It's to thwart repairs specifically, and they cite theft prevention as the reason (which i claim is bs - they could allow repairs by having the owner authorize secondary sale of old phones as parts, which still prevents thefts).

[LorenPechtel]

Perhaps if there was a delayed authentication system. As it stands, their system isn't good enough because it lets the mugger demand you sign off so the phone is unlocked.