The Bolded is nothing more than a mere assumption and a broad stroked statement on your behalf. Even If it were true, it doesn’t mean everybody would experience that scenario depending how they treat their property. Also, you cannot assume something if you don’t have experience with a product yet either.
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The Bolded is nothing more than a mere assumption and a broad stroked statement on your behalf. Even If it were true, it doesn’t mean everybody would experience that scenario depending how they treat their property. Also, you cannot assume something if you don’t have experience with a product yet either.
It does seem that Apple’s corporate goal is to eventually score a resounding 0 in iFixit reviews. Users shall buy and outfit with only Apple options at purchase time and shalt stay out of those inner component compartments else suffer the wrath of Applecare. Apple indirectly says their hardware is simply a throwaway device, when they break go buy another one.
Thinner is NOT better. Flexing, cracking, warping, denting, and bending serve only to overstress internal components and lead to failure. Therefore, early failure, just outside of warranty, leads to product replacement enforcing Apple’s throwaway concept.
In the early years, Apple’s greatest attraction was their outstanding innovation, product versatility and reliability. Now, it seems, they’ve decided their customer base is totally captive and minimal hardware development is sufficient. To insure corporate profitability they’ve led their customers to subliminally believe in the throwaway concept.
Thinner is NOT better. Flexing, cracking, warping, denting, and bending serve only to overstress internal components and lead to failure. Therefore, early failure, just outside of warranty, leads to product replacement enforcing Apple’s throwaway concept.
In the early years, Apple’s greatest attraction was their outstanding innovation, product versatility and reliability. Now, it seems, they’ve decided their customer base is totally captive and minimal hardware development is sufficient. To insure corporate profitability they’ve led their customers to subliminally believe in the throwaway concept.
You'll not like this then
I'd say straw man anyway. For example, every other computer PCB is going to be multi-layer.
They don't hate Apple, the score is related to repairs - many other laptops and products also scored low due to it not being very user servicable. There is no conspiracy against Apple. It is a justified score, a lot of people have to shell out for the whole top or bottom case for an individual component.
The parts are all made in China. LOL at handpicked. These aren't Bugattis. It's a mass produced consumer product. That being said my custom build desktop looks much better on the internals.
Those silicone membranes will heat, warp, and the degrade. They'll also get sticky and wreck the keys.
It would have been an engineering marvel if it was repairable not just cute.
In this age where people are becoming more concerned about waste and the impact we’re having on the planet, a repair ability score of 1/10 is shameful and embarrassing.
From your post, you claim the single unit topcase for minor repairs is "smart" because it was like getting a new laptop.
Here is my problem: (1) what happens to the useable parts, including the battery? This is important both from a shareholder and environmental point of view. (2) what happens when the warranty expires? Our environment is suffering due to our culture of throw-away appliances. It is wasteful and irresponsible IMO to simply discard appliances (including computers) because it becomes more cost effective to buy new than to replace defective parts on an otherwise functional appliance. This throw away economy is a choice and a product of design. It is not necessary.
At the very least, Apple could make the battery replaceable (rather than glue it in) like it is in Lenovo's X1 Carbon, which is an ultraportable itself.
Great engineering with a lot of (lightweight) glue applied everywhere. Quiet, of course, since the fans allow much higher temperatures inside the computer before they kick in. So, what if it fries itself faster than other machines ? Nobody is going to do any heavy work with it, it's a fashion item. It is supposed to be showed to others. No problem, as long as there are enough spare (and still faulty) parts for the replacement programs, right ?
Which is all that matters in Tim Cook's Apple. Maximum profits at any cost. The fact that this laptop becomes a part of the environmental waste if the keyboard fails after warranty shows how much Apple cares about the environment when profits come into the picture.As the repairability score goes up, the profitability score goes down.
Why are you ignoring the implications of Apple's design?
The point is that it is possible to engineer products, even ultrabooks (at least to an extent), to include modular components.
Which component?
These are solid state electronics, the chance they go bad is very very low despite what Rossmann et all tells you.
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Of course, Rossmann fans.
Why don’t you do what he says and just ignore Apple and buy anything else?
If you believe him, why are you in an Apple exclusive website commenting Apple news?
Right on all points.
I need to ask from te very most simplistic yo te same level of topic ... how do you recycle AA or AAA Batteries in your household? Are you aware of the direction/destination of those batteries intended for recycling?
Maybe it’s high time for governments to tax rebate computer and cellphone manufacturers (Dyspn and other appliance makers that use batteries) for the complete return and recycling of batteries from the consumer stage onward.
Maybe it’s high time Apple entice end users to bring in their faulty no longer working machines that use batteries for a swap or for recycling. Grant the end user a credit towards a future purchase ... significant enough for the a typical mind numb consumer to really consider this; say $100 minimum!
Apple began as a hippie like company and. This would align with that beginnings but it’s not like that anymore.
They state they care about the environment but you’ve highlighted a VERY obvious hole in that mythos.
And you know this to be true, how?
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Again, how do you know this will happen?
All it does is reduce battery life and show people at the opposite side of you that you own an Apple laptop.
To be clear, Toshiba no longer owns that tech. Apple and it's consortium do.
Time will tell how long the plastic port will last as opposed to the metal one. I'll go to the store to see how the new speaker sound and hopefully the sound quality will remain the same or better. I'd like to see what the inside of the 15" looks like too.
On my post, it doesn't matter how long they last before they go bad - this is a repairability score, not a reliability score. If your CPU, GPU, RAM, SSD, Keyboard or pretty much anything breaks, Apple won't individually repair said component, hence you will get a hefty bill. Looks like you deliberately misread my post?
On the post about Rossmann, I haven't seen it (I don't follow him), but could you provide some refutations to his claims?
Maybe it's just me, but being able to shave off 36g of metal from what was already a thin casing is both impressive and worrying. That's a decent amount of material to be removing, and only time will tell to see if screens are more easily damaged, or if people will need to pay huge amounts of money to replace the whole keyboard and battery assembly to repair a dent.
What do you even mean by ‘China’ ish quality. You do realize Macs are manufactured in China ,right?
Plastic ports and when the battery dies you have to also replace the keyboard and speakers too!! Forget it.. overpriced throw away junk. Poor design Apple very poor, but it’s brilliant for massively boosting your profits..