[gruez]

Right, because they're broken down for parts, but there's only so much you can do. For one, every time Apple tries to do something to lock down parts, right to repair people decry it as some sort of trojan horse to shut down third party repairs. Moreover even with parts serialization, there's only so much you can do. There's no inherent way for a bag of electrolytes to identify itself to a phone. The best you can do is add a chip to it and identify using that, but you can't prevent that chip from being transferred.

[hopelite]

Thanks. I had not considered whether that is the market. It seems that it is really Apple causing that black market too by locking down the parts market and preventing and thwarting repairability, i.e., thereby creating and driving the black market of people who will replace chips and parts.

The solution strikes me as being to make repairability easier and cheaper by flooding the market with parts/components. Someone may say that Apple prefers selling new Apple products, but the repairing is not only still happening in the black market, but they are also not getting a cut of it under this state. Am I missing something?

[bigyabai]

Apple can do parts lockdown while also allowing users to service their phone safely with third-party components. The Right to Repair crowd gets angry not because of parts serialization, but because Apple uses it as an excuse to stop you from fixing your phone and reinforce monopoly control.

[labcomputer]

How do you distinguish between a legitimate third party component and a stolen one with the serial number wiped?

[bigyabai]

Stronger first-party DRM?

[commandersaki]

In recent versions of iOS it now shows repair history of a phone and if a part is genuine or not. That places a new tier in the market of parts for those with legitimate provenance, as customers of repair shops will now know what they're getting.