A lot of the things that Apple does that seem strange, start to make sense whjen you know the "why" behind them. Take the non user replacable battery for instance. On an Android phone, I'd remove the battery whenever I had to leave my phone in a storage room at work so it would be unusable if someone tried to turn it on or steal it while I was working in another part of the site. Over time, I noticed the battery losing a snug fit with the connector, causing the phone to act up. That's when I realized why Apple wisely fused the battery to the phone to prevent issues like these. Less problems, and a better overall user experience.

There's a reason Steve didn't want the end user tinkering with the device, and preferred having it sent to an Apple repar facility instead.

There may have been a similar reason behind the original repair process. I remember when jailbreaking your iPhone was a thing. My coworker bought a new iPhone back in 2009, jailbroke his perfectly working device, then it stopped working and he began trashing Apple because he fucked up his own phone. They had to send him a new one, and after that, he stopped jailbreaking.

If you mess with it and break it, it's on you.

All of the people that bitched about not being able to repair their iPhones will now be able to. Watch them blame Apple and say iPhones suck if they fuck up their device with an at-home repair. They got what they wanted. Careful what you wish for.

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