Inside the iPhone Repair Ecosystem: Where Do Replacement Parts Come From and Can You Trust Them?

[Dawei_fan]

First of all, this is a well written article, but the infomation below in the quotes are incorrect.

Companies like Tianma, JingDongFang(BOE) are not after market factories, instead, they are actually display glass factories, they produce OEM displays for brands like Huawei, Oppo, Vivo etc.

Several of the large factories you mentioned are in the stock exchange market in China and worth billions of USD.

So why do people think that Tianma produce after market displays, because a lot of the trading companies and wholesalers in China don't even know what they are selling...

Here is the truth....after market manufacturers buy display glass from factories like Tianma and Boe, yes, only the display glass, not assembly, not backlight, not TP...

You can ask any REAL FACTORY owners and distributors in the top tier in China, they will tell you the same, since you mentioned longteng after market display, hmmm, the owners' surname is Xiao.

Please excuse the bad grammer and English, as I am not a native English speaker, nor did I study English litrature.

Larger factories, such as those that produce aftermarket LCDs for iPhones and other smartphones, are huge operations that can output millions of components per month. Companies like Tianma, Longteng LCD, Shenchao, and JingDongFang are well-known in the repair world for producing the aftermarket LCDs used by many repair shops. If you search for display components on auction sites like Alibaba, these are the names that pop up over and over again.


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[charlituna]

It's apparent to me that Apple doesn't want to repair your phone; Apple wants you to buy a new one.

I'm not sure there's a good solution here short of Apple liberalizing it's approach to AASPs (more of them, paying them better rates, and allowing in-house display repairs) but right-to-repair laws, however flawed, might at least force Apple's hand.

If Apple didn’t want to repair phones they wouldn’t have same unit repairs offered in store. So that argument is blown. Now if you want to argue that they don’t want to fix when someone else F’s up a phone especially under warranty, well yeah. No one wants to be stuck fixing someone else’s mistake on their dime.

As for the whole ‘right to repair’, as long as it doesn’t force Apple to pay to fix YOUR mistakes I say go for it. For the sake of already swamped stores I would say make it so folks have to order parts via Apple Care and then add a database of very very step by step instructions with videos even so no one can not understand what to do. Ton of warnings about battery handling, loose screws, about no Touch ID cause they aren’t going to sell you one of those machines (dang things probably cost $10k minimum anyway).

And yes perhaps allowing more AASPs that can do all levels of phone repairs might help