The steam deck exists primarily to expand their targetable market.
It's of no benefit to them if people's devices fail - they just stop buying games (unlike Apple, where the devices are intended to slow down or stop working altogether).
No matter what you think of them as a company Steam is a license to print money, of course basically everything they do is in service of it...
That Valve is a software distribution company.
Today, it is still one of the highest quality consumer VR headsets. It has not dropped in price yet.
I liked the direction you were going, but I don’t think you made the right comparison. iPhones, for example, are used 30-60% longer (4-10 years) than a Samsung phone (3-6 years). Apple provides software updates for all of their devices for 6+ years.
I’ve had very few devices containing lithium ion batteries that didn’t require a new battery. I have devices from the early 2000s from Sony, HP, Dell, Nikon, and countless others whose batteries have failed.
Stop spreading disinformation please