Apple phone with non-apple parts

'[the] phone did not have registered apple internals'

Today while leaving the gym my mom's iPhone 6+ fell out of her gym bag. As she heard it hit the ground it was already too late as a truck passing by crushed it, bending the frame and cracking the screen.
She promptly scheduled an appointment with the mac people to try and recover some of the data on her phone as she uses it for her business and she rarely backs it up as much as I tell her to.

Here's what concerns me though. About 20 minutes ago she called me to tell me what happened.

She said "While they were pulling the back off of my phone at the mac store the guy said he 'noticed that [the] phone did not have registered apple internals, and the numbers here should be different'

I asked her if she knew what any of the parts he was pointing to were, but she didn't. I also asked her if she still had the damaged phone, which she had already replaced with a new one from the Apple store. She also said as the mac guy was activating her new phone that she "should always buy apple products directly from Apple" (we got the other iPhone at the AT&T store)

Not sure what to make of this to be honest, just thought I would share it with you all. If you have any say in where your iPhone is being purchased, get it from Apple. I'll stick with Android for now.

tl;dr - moms phone got rekt, took it to the apple store where they told her it didn't have apple parts. buy apple products from apple. (if at all)

It makes since that Apple would have employees tell you to buy direct because it means Apple gets all the profit on the device sale and doesn't have to share it with the carrier

What... the hell? I'm interested in more information if there is anymore...

Sounds like the employee was very confused at the 'Samsung' (ext) parts, not realising that they are standard.

Sounds to me like the apple store drones didn't know what they were talking about.