Willing to bet that Apple won’t allow independent repair shops to stock parts or even have access to SMT components for board level repair,(reply>), @Mario the water resistance eventually goes away as seals dry anyway. And of course some devices are worse than others in terms of repair. I personally have had no issues with Sony and OnePlus when changing batteries. And water resistance can be restored of you want. All can be done with the right tools. Which is the issue at hand<br><br>Smt parts are a different thing and probably more for things like laptops anyway. And maybe for the critical data recovery of an encrypted phone  (Getting a phone working just enough to recover data) <br><br>Obviously it's a stupid move economically for a company like apple to provide parts (other than creating customer goodwill) obviously they are making a killing by having no real competition when it comes to servicing their devices.<br><br> But as a consumer I will vote with my wallet and choose devices that can be fixed (way cheaper) when I eventually break them.,(reply>), @Mario those parts are cheap as chips, literally. And the only reason to stock more than say a months worth is by the artificial lack of supply companies like apple creates.<br><br>Take Sony's professional camera line for example. You can get almost any part from them if you know it's part nr. None of the issues you talk of exist cause they supply it. Who's going to stock 500 tiny chips when you can just go to Sony?,(reply>), @Mario for a battery? Anyone with an iota of patience can replace it themselves.<br><br>As long as you can buy the part that is. And if the part is the issue I blame the manufacturer from keeping it from the consumer.,(reply>), No one allows it these days. I've worked for Lenovo, Asus and Gigabyte authorised services and none of them allowed to stock components and to do any of the soldering at all! Only moudle repair.,(reply>), Apple do PCB swaps not component level repairs, so it probably a waste of time.