The iPhone 7 Has Arbitrary Software Locks That Prevent Repair (vice.com)

Posted by msmash on Friday April 7, 2017 @06:00AM from the things-going-south dept.

Jason Koebler, reporting for Motherboard: Apple has taken new and extreme measures to make the iPhone unrepairable. The company is now using software locks to prevent independent repair of specific parts of the phone. Specifically, the home buttons of the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus are not user replaceable, raising questions about both the future repairability of Apple products and the future of the thriving independent repair industry. The iPhone 7 home button will only work with the original home button that it was shipped with; if it breaks and needs to be replaced, a new one will only work if it is "recalibrated" in an Apple Store.

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Hey Apple... by Anonymous Coward · 2017-04-07 06:03 · Score: 0, Troll

Fuck you.
1. Re:Hey Apple... by LVSlushdat · 2017-04-07 07:35 · Score: 0, Troll
  
  I second that.... HEY APPLE.... GO FUCK YOURSELF.... Glad I've never owned an Apple product and I damn sure never will... Yeah, I know.. They don't care... and the "useful idiots" that are addicted to Apple won't care...
  
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