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Re:One man’s fight for the right to repair broken MacBooks by webmobdev on Sunday May 23, 2021 @12:17PM (#27256161) 

    It's an assumption based on the assumption that designers would put time and effort into making a simple replacement operation somewhat more difficult.
And it's a very genuine and valid assumption supported by an industry practice called Planned obsolescence - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence
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Re:One man’s fight for the right to repair broken MacBooks by gjsman-1000 on Sunday May 23, 2021 @01:05PM (#27256595)
However, if you take a look, Apple does perhaps the least planned obsolescence of any tech company, period. iOS updates are now going, like, 6+ years back on phones while Android flagships were lucky to get 2 years or any at all, for example.
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Re:One man’s fight for the right to repair broken MacBooks by judge2020 on Sunday May 23, 2021 @03:20PM (#27257729)
For reference:

https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-14/features/#:~:text=iOS%C2%A0...

The iPhone 6s was released September 25, 2015. This is mainly still supported because it's a very popular phone in India and other low-income countries, but it's there.

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Re:One man’s fight for the right to repair broken MacBooks by webmobdev on Sunday May 23, 2021 @05:42PM (#27258854)
They do provide updates, but the devices also become slower either by design (batterygate) and / or through software bloat. Moreover, it doesn't at all excuse their hardwares deliberately designed to be hard to repair.
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