Apple discourages iPhone self-repair with a dirty trick

Both my sons have iPhone XR. One hates it and has not liked his iPhone since his 6S and has decided to go to Pixel 3 next. I, for one, have been with Samsung for my past two phones. I am not in love with Samsung–I miss my Blackberry. Yeah, yeah, I know… But the one irrefutable fact about my Blackberry Z10 was that it did exactly what it said it would do and did it well. The Samsung is capable of doing a million things, few of them well, but I digress…

But when asked why I won’t go to the iPhone? My simple answer is, I do not want to get on the Apple rape train until I absolutely have to. Right now, I don’t, so I won’t. Apple has been this way since the 80’s, so don’t act all surprised…