News - Apple swapping screws to make it harder to open devices

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Reports of secret screw swaps during repairs for weird un-standardised ones.

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Because that's not typical of apple is it lol! Like i care anyway, all the more reason NOT to buy an apple product? pff

im just waiting for the apple report where they explain how these new screws are actually some kind of upgrade for the good of the user

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According to iFixit's blog, Apple has effectively made it impossible for some iPhone owners that have had their phones repaired by Apple to open them up again as the firm has swapped the standard Philips #00 screws situated wither side of the connector dock with weird flower-shaped ones apparently called ‘pentalobe screws.'

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Should be either.

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iFixit has spotted a gap in the market and is selling an iPhone 4 ‘liberation kit' for $10 that lets owners replace the special floral screws with regular ones.

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Not that iFixit are attempting to take advantage of the situation or anything.

Please forgive my ignorance, but is opening the device up necessary to jailbreak it? Maybe this is to also reduce jailbreaking...

And, why would anyone want to take apart their £400/500 iphone ?

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Originally Posted by Tattysnuc

Please forgive my ignorance, but is opening the device up necessary to jailbreak it? Maybe this is to also reduce jailbreaking...

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No it's not - JailBreaking is all software.

If you can't open something to fix it - its already broken.

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Originally Posted by OilSheikh

And, why would anyone want to take apart their £400/500 iphone ?

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To fix a broken screen after the user has dropped their phone.

It's a fairly simple process if you take our time and know what your doing.

I've done screen fixes for various phones but it seems apple want to charge extortionate prices for something you can get from ebay on the cheap.

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Originally Posted by OilSheikh

And, why would anyone want to take apart their £400/500 iphone ?

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To replace the battery, duh!

This will make it even more expensive to service Apple products. But I doubt it will affect their sales though.

Makes me feel that the Apple product you brought really isn't yours but Apple's.

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Originally Posted by usxhe190

This will make it even more expensive to service Apple products. But I doubt it will affect their sales though.

Makes me feel that the Apple product you brought really isn't yours but Apple's.

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But that is the same for everything.

The queen owns it all, you can just allowed to use it.

There is an engineering aspect to this, you know.

Some screw head designs are more durable and less prone to stripping. So maybe they've changed the grade of metal in the screw and are using a different head to complement it.

Pentalobe isn't "tamper resistant", it's just different, and requires a special screwdriver, the same as torx vs regular philips. A tamper resistant screw can only be screwed in, and needs drilling out...

I doubt this is about durability. I have never heard of pentalobe screw until now.

Pentalobe is not a standard so it is not readily available as the other screw types so it is not the same as torx or philips.

I agree that it's probably not about durability, and it may be to prevent people disassembling them.

But the fact remains that they're just different, not tamper-proof.