It’s not even the same thing. The parts are tied to the device for security and supply chain control reasons.So it's okay for Apple to do the same thing John Deere does then? Just because my laptop and phone only costs 4 figures instead of six?
The people who constantly compare this to the John Deere thing don’t understand hardware and software integrity which is the entire foundation of privacy.
That’s a completely different thing to what John Deere are doing which is protecting their leased vehicles from being damaged by bad quality repairs.
Neither are invalid business cases.