Each generation of the smartphone reveals not just what technology can do, but what choices manufacturers make about who gets what and at what cost. This week, iFixit's disassembly of the iPhone 18 Pro laid bare two quiet decisions Apple has made: to embrace mechanical complexity in the camera at the expense of repairability, and to ship meaningfully different hardware to different regions of the world. The device that looks the same in every market is no longer quite the same inside, and the consequences of that divergence — for repair shops, secondhand buyers, and consumers who move across b