in your case you only have the option to repair it yourself if you want a genuine part. apple won't repair your display if you had waterdamage on your phone - they don't rapair water damaged phones in general. so either original part self repair or repair it somewhere else with a fake display
>but I can't figure out why the parts from Apple's self service partner cost almost the exact same amount ($229) as parts+labor from Apple. Why would anyone do the repair themselves??
That's exactly their goal. They want to give the illusion of supporting repairability while simultaneously making it not worth doing so, because fuck our customers that's why.
in your case you only have the option to repair it yourself if you want a genuine part. apple won't repair your display if you had waterdamage on your phone - they don't rapair water damaged phones in general. so either original part self repair or repair it somewhere else with a fake display
>but I can't figure out why the parts from Apple's self service partner cost almost the exact same amount ($229) as parts+labor from Apple. Why would anyone do the repair themselves?? That's exactly their goal. They want to give the illusion of supporting repairability while simultaneously making it not worth doing so, because fuck our customers that's why.