Ohh the good Old serial number parts again.
I think some who think serialised parts can prevent theft misses the Forest for the tree.
Theft will always exist, no matter what. Reusing parts is just one way to salvage what they have stolen. If a component is serialised, they will just scrap it. Sure, earns less, but better than nothing, and apple cannot possibly develop technologies to make even scraping parts worthless.
By serialising parts, not only customers are hurt when their Phone is damaged (Forced to endure extravagant costs demanded by apple, often very Close or exceed the amount of buying a new one, if apple even permit the repair at all, for example, performing data recovery), but also those with skills and ability are hurt as well, because they can’t prolong their device lifespan easily.
Let’s not even start to mention the silly idea of “long term software support = long term support”.
Corporate brainwash is rampant and no one bother to take a look at that.
oh umm, I think those people in China already have developed their own tools to defeat serialising parts (some of them) to prevent theft. In that case, those third party screens/batteries/cameras etc can work just as well as “first party” ones, maybe last just as long, and the repair cost would be a fraction of what apple is asking, and customer can get a working phone again faster.
and how about stealing another iPhone’s serial number to get around the activation lock, plus swapping out certain chips? It was possible before.