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We've all heard by now about the iPhone being hacked so it can be used by other telecom carriers instead of AT&T. That exercise, by a number of groups, was hardly trivial, but neither is finding out something as seemingly simple as the parts that make up the device.
"Every time we tear apart an Apple device someone gets hurt," said Andrew Rassweiler, principal analyst and teardown specialist at iSuppli. Rassweiler was a keynote speaker at the EDA Tech Forum earlier this week in Silicon Valley.
Often used for competitive analysis, iSuppli's reports can be controversial because the company often has to make a series of educated guesstimates about what it cost to build a device or system. One of the issues is that component names often aren't identified and it's sometimes just plain difficult to see what's what.
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