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		gambiting on May 25, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I Broke My Phone’s Screen, and It Was Awesome Because buying a $1 screwdriver is really such a huge problem...

collyw on May 26, 2014 [–]

So was there an engineering reason that Apple chose them?

gambiting on May 26, 2014 | [–]

Well, if it was an attempt at stopping people from opening their hardware,then it was a rather poor one.

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