So I found JAFAT (Just Another Fucking Apple Tablet). This particular tablet was sitting in an ewaste collection bin and it looked to me to be another old useless locked down iPhone. These phones are generally useless ewaste or parts for other iPhones.
With planned obsolescence, iPhones (also Apple Tablets and Computers) generally break in the same place. The parts that need to be replaced are the same parts broken on donor ewaste iPhones. Even if the hardware is in good shape, you can’t install new software on old iPhones.
I found an iPhone 12 mini. A generic iPhone miniaturized to be almost the size of an iPhone SE (which I also happened to find at the same time). This phone has a “better” camera than most of the scrap phones that I have been using, so I was excited to discover the nice dual camera bump on this tablet. I couldn’t figure out why this iPhone was thrown out and, more importantly, reset in a manor that it could be reused. After accepting a charge (another small miracle), the iPhone booted to its set up screen AND its was not connected to an Apple account. These are important things that turn a useless pile of parts into a semi-usable item (camera, tablet, internet connected device, music player).
So I tested the mini 12 for a day and a half. It seemed to work well until…
the fatal flaw.
From new these iPhones were being sent out with a flaw that kills sound. First the speaker for the phone user’s ear would crap out, then the multimedia speaker on the bottom would crap out.
https://support.apple.com/iphone-12-and-iphone-12-pro-service-program-for-no-sound-issues
This one actually worked for the day that I was testing it. On the second day, I played a video and…zap…no sound.
Normal companies would have to a have a recall for all phone with these defects. Apple does not.
Oh, and if you send one in and have… “any damage which impairs the ability to complete the repair, such as a cracked screen, that issue will need to be resolved prior to the service. In some cases, there may be a cost associated with the additional repair.”
Additional cost meaning, You pay more for them to fix it than the iPhone is worth.
You sell a broken product, how about you fix it for free.
Oh well, just buy a new one.
Fuck that.
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