Cali Thieves Hit Apple Store For $20K

[Darealtwo1]

Breh, chip programmers for iPhones/iPads are available at AliExpress and Amazon for about $400+. MacBooks get canibalized for parts regularly.

Word to Louis Rossman.​

Right to Repair

 

[Jekyll]

Breh, iPhones are the EASIEST to disassemble/repair compared to Samsung and others. You can learn how just by watching YT videos. That's why the parts are in-demand.​

Its not easy though, I used to do it for work. There’s step by step guides on sites like ifixit. Still doesn’t mean the shyt isn’t hard as hell. Those pieces are very small and very easily damaged. In particular those tiny ribbon cables that often connect the small components on the tiny pcb. One slight twitch in the wrong direction will snap some of those. They likely have no equipment to actually verify the pieces once disassembled as well.

I’ve tore down iMacs, Macbooks, iPhones etc. Some of those are incredibly hard, they change so much and there’s so many models that have different builds that its hard to keep up with. Apple is of course notorious for proprietary screws as well so you have to find those.

They’ll sell them whole if they sell them at all.

 

[Silver Surfer]

Another Rittenhouse about to happen...it aint a game

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

Its not easy though, I used to do it for work. There’s step by step guides on sites like ifixit. Still doesn’t mean the shyt isn’t hard as hell. Those pieces are very small and very easily damaged. In particular those tiny ribbon cables that often connect the small components on the tiny pcb. One slight twitch in the wrong direction will snap some of those. They likely have no equipment to actually verify the pieces once disassembled as well.

They’ll sell them whole if they sell them at all.

The ONLY phone that gave me an issue (twice) was the iPhone 5 because of home button cable placement. None of them are difficult to disassemble/repair at all if you have the tools and parts unless you're doing board-level repair. The verification is only an issue with the 12's and up.​

 

[Luken]

Oh you know Rittenhouse and them boys ready to cross state lines for this. Media got them videos up running nonstop. Be safe

Nah FBI probably going to step in at this point and shut shyte down

 

[Jekyll]

The ONLY phone that gave me an issue (twice) was the iPhone 5 because of home button cable placement. None of them are difficult to disassemble/repair at all if you have the tools and parts unless you're doing board-level repair. The verification is only an issue with the 12's and up.​

Bro no one cares about your weekend projects. I’m talking as someone who’s cracked open hundreds of these. The whole reason we had business alot of times is because people would break them trying to fix themselves. The average nikka doesn’t have the tools or the skillset to work on sensitive electronics.

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

Bro no one cares about your weekend projects.

That was my part-time job for a year, breh. I got the tools to do it on the side because it was so easy after doing it for a company.​

 

[Will Ross]

The media's recent obsession with an incredibly small number of local group smash-and-grabs, right around the time of the Rittenhouse trial, is clear crime propaganda - and anyone falling for it is a goddamn clown.

Stop

 

[Will Ross]

Nobody is selling parts they going to sell shyt to people that don't know any better.

 

[I AM WE ARE]

I thought the title read "coli thieves"

 

[El_Mero_Mero]

Is the story more juicy and eye-catching due to recent Rittenhouse trial stuff? Yes.

Did local governments in Cali say it was okay for people to rob as long as they kept it under a certain dollar amount way before the Rittenhouse thing? Yes