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Apple's Activation Lock for iPhone components will make a huge dent in the market for stolen iPhones, though it introduces another barrier to DIY repairs (Ben Lovejoy/9to5Mac) (www.techmeme.com)

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Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: Apple's Activation Lock for iPhone components will make a huge dent in the market for stolen iPhones, though it introduces another barrier to DIY repairs — Apple's latest theft-prevention measure went live for beta testers yesterday: Activation Lock for iPhone components.

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[–] KomfortablesKissen@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Third-party parts: You are limited to parts acknowledged by apple. They will be more expensive for no reason and you will therefore be less inclined to repair your own device.

Artificial rarity:
They will be more rare and therefore you will be less inclined to repair.

Rare and overworked repair centers:
There will be a limited selection of repair stores, potentially entirely limited to the "genius bars" because of hurdles apple puts out and therefore you will be less inclined to repair.

Also additional point-of-failure:
Phones fail more often because every single part now has additional complexity.

On the other side the additional security against stealing:
Assumed, until a pairing software is stolen from an apple store, until people figure out how to read and fake this, or until people find ways to circumvent this in an unforeseen way.

[–] Clent@lemmy.world -4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That is some seriously gish gallop. Nothing you've said is based on reality.

[–] KomfortablesKissen@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago

Do you want to go into any kind of detail?