"<a href=""https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmFufMFGlYM&amp;t=4m03s"">4:03</a> Yeah ... no. Ask Louis Rossmann what a sham package this program really is.",(reply>), @Willow It'a somewhat of a mostly-empty pro forma virtue signal if you do drop-in or imagine any kind of fast turnover, but I agree, progress is progress. And it should be commended when it happens, however small, or it's unlikely there will be more of it - don't burn people or companies when they try out changing their ways, even if it's very small. Just make sure the cred is proportionate - otherwise they might also stop there, thinking "ah that's it, we did it, we're good now". Because at least at the start, change is usually reluctant and full of internal friction.,(reply>), Came here to talk about this.,(reply>), I thought of Lewis immediately and wondered what his two cents were on this. Thanks for the link,(reply>), I remember watching his video about this. He said that it’s good progress, but doesn’t do anything for him because he is a part distributor and part distributors can’t be in that program,(reply>), @Mark P You <i>can</i> order parts in advance, but you have to pay an insane premium that works like a deposit. To discourage reselling of parts and "discourage" offering better/faster turnover than Apple's fully aurhorizes and certified partners (and Apple themselves). So unless you're a billionaire and do this as a hobby, or only have a single one, stocking parts on hand is not a viable option. Here's the extra kicker, a big one straight to the balls: Either you send apple the bad part first, or pay the insane premium and get the part, then get refunded the "deposit" once you send in the bad repøaced part. BUT! If the customer's bad part turns out to be any kind of non-original Apple part - you do <b>not</b> get that deposit back. Or if you send the bad one in first, wait for the new one and it turned out to be a fake - now the customer is out their old part, and you're most likely on the hook for replacing it by consumer law, because Apple won't return the old non-Apple one to you.<br><br>So to survive as this kind of Apple 3rd party with that deal, you're gonna have to open up the customer unit and inspect the dead/damaged part(s) first, then have stock of non-genuine parts hidden under the floorboards (in case Apple comes for a surprise inspection), have a big investor dump high-risk capital in "depsits" for stocking a small handful of genuine parts on hand and be a proper expert on spotting high quality clone parts - or after gutting the customer's device and confirming parts are genuine, putit back together and tell them there's hundreds to thousands of dollars in deposit and they need to come back in two weeks for the actual repair.<br><br>No thanks. I'll stick to good quality bootleg parts and scrap donor boards thank you.