This doesn't necessarily indicate malice. Apple has little obligation to test every software change on non standard hardware so it's reasonably possible some innocent change had a breaking effect on a modified device.
It wasn't Apple, and it was unrelated to DRM. This device had no DRM.
You could claim that the lack of serialization/identification was the problem.
If they would have known it was a non-genuine part, they could have used the legacy driver. As is, they would have had to find some side channel to identify it was genuine or not, or just never update the driver for that module again, all based on user reports of random phone stopping, and analyzing those phones, because there's no way to know what some random knockoff is doing.
Do i observed this so many times, whenever we have a strong suspicion something dodgy is going on -
folks on this forum have such prepensity to give large immoral corporation benefit of the doubt, but declare individuals guilty.
Motive, Opportunity and Means, Aplle has all three.
