I’ve had auto mechanics try to scam me. Never Apple. John Deere isn’t selling common consumer products. Pretty bad comparisons. Try comparing to Samsung or Lenovo or Microsoft (Surface).
Try getting a Louis Vuitton bag repaired. Same thing. Self-repair doesn’t intersect their market.
As a result, selling expensive devices and making repairs expensive and wasteful has a much larger overall impact on consumers as a whole than the same for Louis Vuitton bags.
I'm not seeing how this isn't them conspiring to make repair difficult. Even just plainly accepting your reasoning, they perceive themselves as a luxury brand, thus they conspire to make repairs exceptionally difficult because they think that somehow contributes to their luxuriousness.
Software resists maintenance and enhancement, and is completely opaque — sometimes outright hostile — to the end user. Software companies deliberately lock users in to their platform and ecosystem to a degree hardware companies can only dream of. Huge profits come from the constant rewriting of working code by programmers who didn’t take the time to understand what their customers use, or need. Customers routinely get terrible estimates or plain stiffed by scammers and incompetent programmers. Conspiracy?
And most of the software produced has such poor quality and reliability it makes Apple laptops five-9s by comparison.
If you don’t like Apple equipment or their conspiracies then vote with your wallet. I’ve never had a serious problem with any Apple hardware. I pay for AppleCare like I used to pay for Dell extended warranties, and Apple has always honored their warranty and AppleCare commitments for me.
- it has consequences
- no one says- well pollution is not due to oil companies but customer obsession towards buying cars etc
- one tries to push better standards, reduce pollution etc
> major laptop brand is easy for the end user to repair
Dell latitudes
Again if apple has a tiny market share like LVMH then ok. But they are close to 50%.
If omega/rolex throws away EXPENSIVE A all is ok. Just 100 watches are made for 50K each.
Apple sells millions. Do you know when apple tried to brick all the phones with 3rd party fingerprint reader? That is terrible for environment.
Again if I look at your profile you live in SE Asia. These places will be affected by environment and cause high population deaths.
Again,ifixit only says allow others to make parts.
The likes of you can buy applecare and trash env. Lets others fix your old device.
I do say that pollution is due to obsession with cars and refusal to use public transportation, bicycles, walk. I haven't owned a car in years. I don't support the oil companies but they aren't forcing everyone to buy two pickup trucks, they're just enabling it. Supply and demand, pretty simple concept.
Dell Latitudes are sold as business computers. Businesses depreciate things like laptops over 3-5 years. They may or may not care about repairs and upgrades, but in my experience businesses pay for service contracts with Dell etc. The Inspiron line is Dell's consumer line, somewhat less amenable to upgrades and repairs, though I grant better than Apple hardware. Both Dell and Apple offer recycling and trade-in programs, though I don't know what ultimately happens to that stuff. I see used phones, tablets, laptops for sale all over Asia, along with lots of small repair shops, so it's not all just going into landfill like in the US.
Apple's desktop market share is around 15%, not 50%, but that includes desktop and all-in-one iMacs. Laptop market share is closer to 7% globally with the (hard to repair) Asus and Acer ahead by a fairly big margin.
LVMH does not have tiny market share. They are the leading luxury brand. Among all purses or luggage or shoes sold, yes, LVMH is tiny. In their niche they dominate.
You seem to miss my actual point. You don't need to imagine a conspiracy at Apple to force consumers to buy new phones and laptops all the time by making their products unrepairable. The economics of manufacturing, logistics of supply, and the nature of consumer craving and demand do that for Apple, with no need for a conspiracy. Once Apple secured its spot as the luxury electronics brand they don't have to conspire -- people willingly buy new iPhones every year (they stand in line overnight, in fact) for the status display.
You can write "f off" with money. But Apple is indeed > 50% market share(iPhones, lockin). Of course, you need not care because you have money.
You dont own car. How does it matter here? People are only criticising Apple. Not you.
> though I don't know what ultimately happens to that stuff
A quick google would tell you. So much is crushed.
Every inspiron has replaceable parts.
I don't have a preference about motherboards or SSDs and how much they might cost an imaginary child "not as successful" as me. That has nothing to do with explaining why I think Apple makes their products the way they do. Nor does me explaining why I think Apple does that make me responsible for or complicit in the ethics as you or anyone else might perceive them.
I have paid for numerous computer and phone replacements and repairs for my own children, if that matters. I also volunteered for years at a non-profit that recycles used electronics and gives them to less fortunate people for free. Worthwhile but not something that scales to millions or billions of devices.
You brought up oil companies and cars. Not a great analogy as I pointed out but no one has to buy a car, like no one has to buy an unrepairable Macbook. Choices have consequences. Blaming the generations ahead of you won't do you any good.
If the economies of scale was the issue, apple would have no problem with 3d party repair shops being able to order components to fix customers laptops. But instead, they actively fight against that.
Furthermore the repairs that they provide themselves where they replace components are jacked up in price.