Apple’s Punishment for Daring to Get Your Screen Repaired by Unauthorised Shop

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by webmobdev • 6 years ago

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webmobdev3• 6 years ago

And this is why Americans need to DEMAND their "Right to Privacy" and "Right to Repair" from their democratically elected government, instead of expecting profit seeking corporations to do the "right" thing!

zapttt2• 6 years ago

wait, if i read that rigth it will just show a notification. what's wrong with that?

I hate and never buy apple devices for many reasons, but telling me the device was tampered with, with no side effect (heck, they used to brick devices before for even less than replacing the display)... but I mean, if they really cared about the users they would also show the new serial, hash, whatever they track so that the user can keep the same tampering protection after they got one replacement

webmobdev3• 6 years ago

wait, if i read that rigth it will just show a notification. what's wrong with that?

The criticism is directed at the way it is designed, which many see as a deliberate way to harass the user through poor user experience:

- It will show the notifications for 4 days on the lockscreen.

- It will then show the notifications for 15 days on the Settings app.

- It will then show the notification forever in the Settings > General > About section.

Does anyone really like a notification that is persistent and does not go away even if you want it to?

All they need to do is show it once. And if they wanted to, create a new section in Setting called "Hardware" that would then display the hardware details of replaceable parts (ofcourse, it is a different debate that Apple claims there are no user replaceable parts).

zapttt2• 6 years ago

again, i hate apple. but you are being disingenious.

if I replaced your screen with a malicious one that stores images and touches to later steal your pins, i could just wait the low time limit, give it to you and hope you never checks the buried down setting screen.

this way it brings the evil-maid-attack down to zero, as the user have 15 days to see the atack. and the forever-setting is only meant for ppl buying a new device.

Betelgeuse90• 6 years ago

What about my sister's punishment for daring to buy a supposedly new iPhone 8 a tad cheaper than market price from some electronics shop, only to find it has a fake display with no True Tone that after a while just stops registering touches?

Had she seen a message like this she would have understood the problem immediately and returned that iPhone with a proof that they screwed her over.

The problem Apple is purporting to solve is real, so keep it in mind.

Apple’s Punishment for Daring to Get Your Screen Repaired by Unauthorised Shop

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