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Preventing counterfeit boards with janky memory upgrades, or something, from getting out onto the market seems like a potentially worthwhile thing, but also probably a reaction to an imaginary problem. Preventing end users from doing what they want seems like a bad thing, but given how few users are actually capable of doing this upgrade, also probably an imaginary problem.

Given the state of the world I'm a little amazed anyone can muster any outrage about this.

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Except it isn't - 8GB boards that started their lives as 1/2GB variants are absolutely on the market.

>but given how few users are actually capable of doing this upgrade, also probably an imaginary problem.

Just remember that in China there are places where you can get your iPhone storage upgraded by someone desoldering the original chip and soldering on a new one, they get the whole process done in 20 minutes. If labour is cheap and the skills high that's what you get.

Where could I buy one? That's interesting.

I don't know where you can buy one now - but when the 8GB model first came out it was instantly out of stock everywhere except for aliexpress at suspicious prices...it's an anecdote so it's not like I can give you % numbers, but I know 2 people who bought them and they were both clearly re-soldered units(they worked fine though, afaik they are still using them).

And that's awesome! Much better than forcing people to throw away stuff by artificial means, so that the corporation can sell it again to them.

Yeah I mean of course, that is a great thing to have.

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