I spent a lot of time this week watching and reading a lot of apple related content. There have been several repair videos I watched in preparation for my iPhone opening attempt, but also outside of the iPhone SE I had been looking at other iPhones as well as Macs. One thing that stood out to me while watching one of the videos was what this guy said about Apple and why he does what he does. He said how it is very wasteful of Apple to not supply their customers with replacement parts for their products. There are many people who break their devices and just end up throwing them away, which is a huge waste of materials. This Youtuber, whose name is Hugh Jeffreys, talked about how he repairs these iPhones that seem hopeless in order to prevent that from happening. It made me think about how important it really is to thoroughly study the devices we work with because if we do, then we have a better chance of diagnosing certain problems and fixing them ourselves. That way, less devices and materials are being thrown out and wasted. But also if our devices may not be fixable, we can scrap them for parts and use the pieces to fix any similar devices. For instance, in one of his videos, Jeffreys didn’t have an essential part he needed for the touch ID sensor in a phone he was repairing, but he was still able to repair it using other parts he had stored from other iPhones. It would be much easier and more cost effective to do this instead of having to buy a completely new phone, which is Apple’s intention when they choose not to sell components necessary for repairs, as well as make it difficult to open the phones and remove parts etc. to begin with. Reverse engineering such devices would clearly be beneficial when that’s the case.