BCC Rod: look what you started ;-)

>> ... A good fraction of the replacement batteries on (say) eBay
>> already come with a set of tools needed to do the replacement. =A0In a
>> month or less, they'll include the new tool, too...

> Agreed,


Agreed.

But:

Note

1.  The term "a good fraction of" above.

2. This does not immediately address the people (apparently ALL such)
who send/take an older iPhone or computer in for repair etc and have
it 'improved'.

No vastly great issue, and it keeps people off the street by spawning
a whole new industry with the extra churn.

As to whether its "a whole bunch of nothing": It may well be, but
Apple are not known for doing things which they expect to lose money
(expectation and reality sometimes differing spectacularly), would be
aware that negative press will occur, and will have worked out what
the overall result is liable to be.

They may have decided that "all publicity is good publicity" and that
this is the way to get some more, AND/OR they may  suddenly have
turned benign and helpful and genuinely caring in their old age and
decided that there is net benefit for their customers so they have
decided to improve customer security at no cost to the customer,
AND/OR (giving them the strong benefit of the doubt with the AND) may
have decided that overall the exercise is liable to be net revenue
positive which, one might feel that one has observed,  is an immediate
trigger, AND/OR something else (eg addressing liability issues)(my
child used a readily available T0 Torx driver and opened my iPhone3
and swallowed all the screws AND the battery - you should have
retrofitted the screws when I put it in for service, please deposit
1/5/10 million dollars here and say SCORE. Who can tell. Some may
guess ;-).


     Russell

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