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Originally Posted by pwalker8
In other words, some unauthorized dealers use bad components that interact with the touch ID sensor to trigger a security error. So, no Apple doesn't render the device useless if it detects repairs not carried out by Apple, repairs with bad components render the device useless.
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The situation is much more complicated.
If you had a fingerprint sensor changed/repaired by an unauthorized repair shop
in a distant past, the new firmware update will irreparably brick your $800 iPhone. Apple claims the phone can not be unbricked.
It is not like it requires PIN to log in, or locks you out, or wipes your data, or sends you to an authorized service to get proper spare part, or requires you to visit Apple with a proof of ownership. BAM! One moment your phone works happily, months after the unauthorized repair, next moment, after the update is finished you are holding an $800 brick with cryptic "error 53" on display. With all your photos and documents and data that were on the phone irretrievably lost.
There is lively discussion on BoingBoing
http://boingboing.net/2016/02/05/ger...tely-bric.html