Argh.
One of the most outrageous examples in the book involves the lengths to which Apple goes to prevent independent repair of the iPhone. A large chunk of Apple’s profits comes from people replacing broken iPhones that could be easily repaired with replacement parts. To ensure old phones can’t be repaired or harvested for repair parts, Apple uses patent law to prevent the third-party manufacture of replacement parts, and it negotiates deals with recyclers to ensure that used phones are completely destroyed. Most gallingly, it prints a miniscule Apple logo on internal parts so that its lawyers can argue that harvesting replacement parts from discarded phones is a violation of Apple’s trademark. The lawyers claim the logo creates the expectation that these recycled parts have been recertified by Apple.