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Ease of swapping parts is quite pointless as long as they keep bricking your device/disabling features when unoriginal part is detected even if it's from another genuine iPhone.
They say it's to stop people from stealing iPhones to sell for parts.
What they don't say is that the only reason there is a market for that is that they aren't willing to sell the parts directly at an affordable price....
There's an easy fix to this. Allow users to mark their devices as broken/dead in their (icloud?) system, so its parts can be extracted and used for genuine repair. Put it behind 2FA, email confirmation, and require purchase invoice, or whatever to make it happen. To counter edge cases, give a month for appeal, only then mark it safe for usage of its parts on other phones. A trillion dollar company should be able to implement this, but they're trillion dollar company for a reason, so yea...
Thiefs don't have access to the accounts inside a locked phone, let alone the invoice of purchase.
Yup, people have been suggesting this for a while, but that goes against the interests of Apple.
Also, it's still confusing to me how they just allow for someone who sees you put your pin and steals your iPhone to be able to hijack your iCloud account.