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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?