Positive news about Apple, on the Apple enthusiast community? And only half of the comments are negative?
This seems like a positive move no matter how you spin it. Hopefully their solution works well to make stolen phones completely worthless.
Having had a phone stolen out of my hand while talking on it, I can say I’d rather pay more and be more wasteful than let a person who would do that make money off of it, but I’m sure most don’t feel that way.
I’ll wait for Rossmann’s video explaining why this is another BS attempt at Apple to sound green. I’m tired but I just don’t trust companies.
They’ll probably just double/triple the price of new parts now if you want to use them.
Some companies are alright with this but yeah there’s always a catch with Apple.
Love it. Locking my parts to my device when activation lock is on will be great at making my phone less appealing for thieves.
I don’t see a downside here aside from shops being unable to buy stolen components (cry me a river) to undercut legit repairs. Yes there will be fewer components available because some phones will be unable to be unlocked when damaged so the parts can’t be scavenged. Pity shrug.
I’m ok with shops being able to repair devices with 3rd party components however the device should show a very visible alert message when starting up (rather than being buried in a menu somewhere). “This device contains non-original components” so people aren’t mislead if buying a used device.
I wonder if there’s any way to unlock the parts once they’ve been separated from the phone that locked them. It definitely seems like they’re just trying to kick the can on right to repair and say they’re definitely dedicating resources to sustainability and consumer protection.
I guess Apple will have a database with locked phones and their respective parts. So when the owner of that marked stolen device marks it as unstolen, it should in theory be removed from the locked parts list.
Sounds a like better compromise between repairability and theft deterrence.
Having a service history available in Settings is also a good idea, especially for transparency in resale.
That’s pretty good news. Glad they have a solution for the theft concerns, as that seemed to be a lot of naysayers only gripe.
