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> It’s why you can get your iPhone storage upgraded for pennies on the dollar.

??? How is this related to anything IP? To get your iPhone storage upgraded, you just need to blow off the old NAND Flash and "solder" new ones. Their pinouts are in public standards and every storage vendor in this world uses the same one.

And they did this for pennies because, of course, contrary to what Apple wants people to believe, flash storage does not cost much and even with the cost of all the dirty work it's still not much.

Or do you mean that they are violating Apple's IP rights by modifying their own devices? That's just... bullshit.



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