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What makes an apple tech special other than having access to the parts?
Special tools for the repair and experience. Apple will apparently make the tools available and maybe we will see third party cheaper knockoffs of some tools, but many of them are expensive. It is sort of like certain car repairs that require buying a special Snap-On tool to perform.
 
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