This is seriously fucked up, tho. Crapple artificially makes repairs more complicated than they have any right to be, then begrudgingly lifts some of those artificial restrictions after some pegging from the EU, and here we are, discussing it as if it’s some kind of accomplishment and not the way things should’ve been from the beginning.

Same for the activation locks. If I buy parts, idgaf if they’ve been ripped of a stolen phone. If my phone is stolen, idgaf if it’s stripped for parts. The only thing those locks could achieve is the criminals adapting by stealing unlocked phones or finding a way to reflash those identifiers while increasing the amount of perfectly good parts thrown away for no reason until they do so.