>Lots of electronics have become more reliable by being fully integrated units. I prefer a durable phone to a repairable phone that needs constant replacements.

Your argument might be fair but is ignoring the 99% of the complaints:

- DRM

- no schematics

- forbidding selling of spare parts

- not sharing repair tools

Maybe we should put an Apple exception so we don't trigger the fanboys then we get the right the repair for all the other electronics , fix 90% of the problem and we takle the Apple fanboys with a different law.

Imagine this scenario, you have a tool like a tractor (but could be a washing machine,printer). One day it stops working and a red light turns on. In this case the problem was something a child could fix, something got stuck in the tool and it could not open/move, you remove the thing and all is fine now. But the tool will not work until a genius will you send it to a genius to use a secret tool to read the error code, then he would notice that all is fine, press the "Reset status" button on his tool and give you a big receipt.

I imagine the Apple car, you will have a tire issue but you only an Apple genius will be able to replace the tire and the fanboys will defend the DRM locked tires with the same bad excuse "the DRM reduces tire stealing, it is not expensive for me personally to bring the car to Apple store, there are so many stores here in my city, don't buy the Apple car if you are poor , and if someone gifts you an old one throw it away, there are no parts anyway and fixing an old one would cost more then a new one )