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Hands-on with Apple’s Self-Service Repair kit to swap iPhone batteries: users are rented 79 lbs of tools, including a heat station, for a 7-day $1,200 card hold — Apple must be joking. — That’s how I felt again and again as I jumped through hoop after ridiculous hoop to replace the battery in my iPhone Mini.