hey everybody how's it going as you can
see i don't have just one cat on a chair
today i have two mr clinton is to my
left
and blackberry the kitten is to my right
they're here to provide moral support
because today i have some very very bad
news for independent repair shops and
right to repair in general so i want to
talk about the iphone 13 and that they
are disabling more features and
functionality if you change the screen
anywhere outside of apple now the iphone
13 has a feature called face id what
this does is it allows you to unlock the
phone by looking at it the camera will
look at your face and it will determine
that you are indeed you and if it
determines that you are you it unlocks
the device on older iphones this feature
would be disabled only if you mess up a
little flex cable when transferring it
from the old screen to the new screen so
there's a cable on there it has the
proximity sensor this is what senses
whether or not you have the phone to
your face or not so it knows to turn the
screen off and the ambient light sensor
this is going to be what helps the phone
figure out how bright is it outside so i
know how bright to make the screen if
you broke that cable when you were
transferring it from the old screen to
the new screen and you had to use a new
cable that would mess up face id but if
you were able to transfer that cable
from the old screen to the new screen
without damaging it your customer would
have face id when you were done with the
repair now you can change out that
ambient light sensor and proximity cable
with any cable you want and it still
works however if you change out the
screen that will cause it not to work
and this is a serious problem for
anybody that's doing phone repair
because the screen breaks way more often
than this cable breaks that's the thing
that's going to die on average when you
you drop your phone not a cable the
screen is going to crack so if you crack
your screen you go to another repair
shop even if they are using an oem
screen from another iphone that you
bought at the apple store face id is
still not going to work so apple has
created an environment whereby if you go
to anybody besides the apple store or an
apple authorized service provider to
have this done you will have decreased
functionality in the device even if the
independent repair shop does nothing
wrong even if they use an apple oem
screen from a phone that they bought
from the apple store it will still
result in a decreased functionality to
the customer and what the customer is
going to think is that the independent
repair shop is shady they're going to
think they're using horrible parts
they're going to think that they screwed
something up or broke something or that
they're lying to them further driving a
wedge between the consumer and
independent repair shops because most
people are not going to believe that
this is occurring simply because apple
are being [ __ ] they're going to believe
that this has happened because we the
independent repair shop are screwing
with them and i think this is why it's
really important to have this education
out there so that when something like
this happens rather than someone saying
that independent repair shop must be
lying to me to save money they're
probably lying because they broke
something they think oh the manufacturer
must be doing something to make sure
that i go back to them screw the
manufacturer i think it's really
important that the blame here be placed
in the right place not with the
independent that's trying to do their
job but with the manufacturer now this
is something that we saw just months ago
or actually last year with the iphone 12
and the camera and i talked about it in
this video you jeffries tried swapping
the board between two phones and the
camera stopped working so even if you
bought this phone from
in an apple store and you took the
camera out of it and you put it into a
different iphone
even though it's an oem camera it
wouldn't work and as a result of public
outrage apple decided to rescind that
and i do hope they do something similar
when it comes to face id now you know
that we're probably going to hear the
same excuses we hear every single time
privacy safety security batteries
exploding unauthorized bad bloody bloody
bloody bloody blah but you know again
this is just one of those other cases
where something that was possible with
the prior generation is not possible
with the new generation and it just
feels like a death by a thousand cuts of
constantly constantly trying to make it
more difficult to work on their products
now i know what many of you are going to
say you're just whining you why don't
you just become authorized by the irp
program if you were simply authorized by
or a member of the irp program then you
would be able to to work on this stuff
you would have access to everything that
you need you just don't want to because
you're cheap or you want to save money
or because you're an [ __ ] and okay
fine point taken i kind of am an [ __ ]
as i've gone through in some older
videos and i highly suggest you check
them out if you're curious as a member
of the irp program and it first came out
i couldn't order parts and stock them i
needed to order them
once the customer came into the store so
instant turnaround out and no i needed
to
get rid of everything in my store that i
used to fix things so for instance if i
have certain contraband in the store if
i have you know cd3215 chips isl 9240s
cd3217s schematics board use if i'm
doing board repair and that type of
stuff in the store
they could inspect the store at any
given time and say you have this stuff
here you're not supposed to you're out
of the program they would ask for my
customer addresses phone numbers home
addresses full names and everything for
every customer which i mean you know
call me crazy i don't think that's
apple's business who came to me when why
and where they live if they bought a
product use on craigslist they have the
right to bring it to me without me
giving apple their effing information
and above all i can actually get access
to most of the things that i need to do
my job so this program would actually
result in us not being able to do most
of the repairs that we do because a lot
of the stuff that i have in the store is
stuff that they don't want me to have
like i'm going against apple to have
access to schematics to have access to
board views to have access to iso 9240s
and cd 3217 chips so that i can actually
do board repairs so that i can actually
tell a customer when they come in and
they say my computer doesn't charge
anymore for me to be able to tell them
yes i can fix that for you here's what
how much it'll be it'll be done in two
days i need to have items in my store
that i would not be allowed to have
under the irp program so the reason that
i don't become authorized in order to
get access to this is because it would
literally stop me from being able to do
my job when you show up and you say i
need my data off of this machine that
just randomly stopped working and i need
to be able to fix its charging issue or
i need to be able to fix the cpu being
dead or whatever it is i can't do that
if i become apple authorized or if i
join the irp program i would not be
allowed to i would actually have to set
up a separate business in order to do
that which most likely would not be
accepted into the program for obvious
reasons so let me know what you think in
the comments down below and i just want
to say thank you very much to iphone
repair guru here or phone repair guru
here i'll link his video down below for
doing the test to figure out that this
is the case with the new iphone and let
me know how you feel about this anym i
know another thing that people are going
to say they're going to say
well just don't buy apple just don't buy
apple and simply put the problem solved
and if there's anything that you've seen
over the past 10 20 30 years
this is coming to cars this is coming to
medical equipment this is coming to
agricultural equipment and this is
coming to every other device if you
think that apple is the only company
that's going to do this as a company
worth over two trillion dollars that's
one of the leaders in the industry if
you think they're the only one that's
going to do this when every other
company sees that they got away with it
and they kept printing money
that's some naive thinking there my
friend samsung was doing something
similar with screens i covered that in a
video last year
every company winds up following the
company that gets away with something
that allows them to make more money even
if it's at the user's expense so if
users roll over for this if they just
buy the new one anyway and apple makes
more money a message is being sent to
every other manufacturer that i can do
this too and i can get away with it and
you bet your ass they will
does anybody here remember when samsung
made fun of apple for removing the
headphone jack or the micro sd card slot
and made a commercial about it
peppered farmer members
pepperidge farmer members that's it for
today and as always i hope you learned
something i'll see you all in the next
video bye now