You can always use your own with the instructions provided on the site, but again, breaking the system during repair is a quick way to get out of a warranty.Īs ever, the company would rather push most people to get their devices fixed by an authorized repairer.”Over the past three years, Apple has nearly doubled the number of service locations with access to genuine Apple parts, tools, and training, including more than 3,500 Independent Repair Providers,” it notes in a release. But Apple is effectively giving you the same tools its certified repairers use. Getting a massive hard case shipped to your home to repair a little phone is not exactly the most convenient thing in the world, especially compared to companies like Samsung and Google, which partnered with iFixit for their own repair offerings.
Like the iPhone before it, Apple is providing its own pro tools for repairs. This is done to actively discourage users from trying to undercut the price by upgrading after the fact. That means if you buy a board with a larger hard drive, you’ll be paying full price for the component - and it’s not cheap. The company is nipping that impulse in the bud, however, by only offering the discount if you send in a part with the same SKU. I suspect handy folks will be inclined to use Self Service Repair as a kind of after-market upgrade for things like RAM and storage. The logic board is the most interesting piece of the puzzle here. No word on whether such an issue could potentially break the system’s warranty.
It’s also attempting to address potential incompatibility. It’s not an insignificant one either - the logic board, for instance, is nearly 3x the price if you don’t send back the old one. Those parts that are simply too busted to save, meanwhile, get recycled, while the company still gives a discount. That both encourages recycling and keeps the prices down for Apple, which recirculates refurbed components back into the Apple ecosystem, be it through refurbished systems or the repair program itself.
The pricing, keep in mind, is after trading in the older model.
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