Comment by 4fterd4rk
6 days ago
The planned obsolescence conspiracy theories about the company whose products famously last longer and hold more value than their competitors ring a little hollow.
6 days ago
The planned obsolescence conspiracy theories about the company whose products famously last longer and hold more value than their competitors ring a little hollow.
I've never seen any evidence that either of those are true.
However, it's not planned obsolescence either. It's just math. Building things to be repairable costs more money and time. There is very little incentive to do so, because most customers simply do not care. Thus, Apple does not bother. Nothing conspiratorial about it.
Most people do care even though they won't do any repairs themselves. This very article explains how it makes a few broken keys a 700$ repair. Customers do care about that.
No, enthusiasts care about that. People who have a soldering iron and will try to fix things themselves.
Most people do the following:
* Take it to Apple * Apple says it will cost $X * Customer says 'yes' and gets it repaired OR customer says 'no' (and proceeds to buy a new one)
That's what the vast, vast, vast majority of customers do.
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