Keatah

Did they make their own screw head that is tamperproof using anything else than their own screwdriver?

Edit: I had to look it up, and yes the pentalobe screws have been used for a decade by Apple and Huawei, entirely to prevent owners from opening up their devices though there are cheap drivers to tackle those anyway. The mere idea to choose a screw not for its gripping properties but in order to not make it serviceable should be punishable by law.

The one I was talking about is just a regular one that would be at home in a pocket protector.

How lame. Then again if they're using tamper proof screws, probably they leave it to someone else to sell matching screwdrivers as it would be counterintuitive to break your own lock. I saw comments about Apple once possibly designing their own, asymmetrical screw that after patenting would mean nobody could legally copy it to make a screwdriver. Some companies probably wouldn't bother about licensing anyway, though in theory Apple could make a custom screw that nobody would be qualified to open for 20 years or as long as the patent would last.

OTOH I read that there already are one-way screws that are impossible to unscrew by less than drilling a hole into it and use a tap so if Apple really wanted to prevent their customers from servicing their equipment, they would already use those. Sure it would make it a mess even for a qualified repair shop to service it, but in the best of worlds an Apple product never goes bad so you don't need to access what is inside until it is fully obsoleted anyway.