Re:Apple Shipped Me a 79-Pound iPhone Repair Kit to Fix a 1....
by paulryanrogers on Saturday May 21, 2022 @04:53PM
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Leading fashion brands have network effects and it can create something like Stockholm syndrome to those who buy into it. Other manufacturers often follow leading brands for prestige, or because people become accustomed, not always because the direction is objectively better when accounting for costs to future generations.
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Re:Apple Shipped Me a 79-Pound iPhone Repair Kit to Fix a 1....
by pdoege on Saturday May 21, 2022 @06:04PM
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No, it's because Apple phones have margin. They make money. Their competitors desperately want to make money.
They make their money selling phones wholesale into retailing supply chains. One of the rules of those supply chains is that the OEM eats the costs of early returns.
So they removed every widget that they possibly could and then glued everything down so that it could not possibly come loose, be dropped, wedged etc. during the warranty period.
Battery doors, headphone jacks, you name it. All gone.
End customers don't seem to care. Phones with swappable batteries, headphone jacks, etc. exist. They don't sell well in high margin markets.