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Do you really think that nearly half of the price of an iphone is the screen? How come competitors are able to offer screens at 1/3rd the price?

Keep in mind that apple is intentionally killing the third party market. You cannot make a third party screen for an iphone that behaves the same as a regular screen, the iphone firmware will detect this and prevent it.

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Directly from Apple the screens are closer to 25-30%, depending on the phone. And what competitor? You can’t even buy a screen directly from Samsung. Closest I see is the pixel series via ifixit, which truly do seem to cost about the same as the apple parts. Maybe a bit cheaper, but also the pixel displays are not quite as nice as iPhone ones.

Most competitors are repaired with screens scavenged from other devices. Which is not possible with Apple devices, because of the hardware lock.

Except, it is? iOS 18 allows this natively now. And even before that, you could still use scavenged screens, it just would give you the “unable to validate” pop up.

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