Why wouldn't they, they are the sole provider of the parts, manuals, tools, the software is so locked down you have to ask for their blessing to install them. You can't go to rock auto and get parts for your MacBook Pro.
> It would also make its parts, tools, and repair documentation available to both non-affiliated repair shops and individual customers, "at fair and reasonable prices“.
not sure if this is related, but it looks like a step in the right direction.
The other question here is how granular these parts are going to be, a board level repair technician might need just one proprietary chip that ought to cost $5, but if their only option to get it is to buy an entire replacement motherboard...
Part availability will likely mirror that of internal repair processes, and I’m almost certain that Apple isn’t performing board level repairs because that doesn’t scale particularly well. It’s way faster for a technician to swap out the whole board and move on to the next device.
oh, i understand what you mean. i never install anything other than original parts in my cars, and those have huge markups. i guess what the people in this thread are looking for are “OE” parts for smartphones?
Even that often isn’t possible with the most recent Apple devices. Even genuine parts often can’t be used (or work only in a degraded mode) unless authenticated by Apple’s System Configuration tool. That means you can’t swap many parts, even between identical devices, and expect them to work properly.
Presumably this news means that Apple is making the configuration tools more widely available to third parties, but I’ll bet they will only authenticate parts supplied directly by Apple, not parts scavenged from other devices!
(There is perhaps some logic to all this: it makes phones less desirable to thieves if they can’t be broken down and resold for parts)
