> I don't buy Apple products anyhow. I bought my first apple product six months ago. An iphone 5 32gb model. It had been roughly used, and I got a discount.

> I don't buy Apple products anyhow. I bought my first apple product six months ago. An iphone 5 32gb model. It had been roughly used, and I got a discount. I bought this, in part, because I can get cheap parts for an older iphone; this is much less true of any other model of older phone. Also, I can get updated software for an older iphone... this is also not true of older android phones (as far as I can tell, CyanogenMod drops support just as quickly as the original manufacturers. Yes, I could figure out how to port the security updates to the device-specific package, but I could also write my own phone OS, given enough time and effort. There's no reasonable/practical way to get up to date software for an old android phone.) A new apple phone isn't as better than a new android as people say... and god damn, itunes is a piece of shit when it comes to managing podcasts. ios might even be worse (no sd card, etc..) But an iphone that is a couple years old and has sustained some damage is way better than an android of a similar vintage, simply because of the software and hardware support. Note, it is pretty unlikely that I would buy an apple workstation, for all the reasons discussed in this article, and because I find their keyboard unpleasant.... but the point remains that in practical terms, it's way easier to repair an old Iphone than an old android phone, simply because of the wide availability of parts. (that said, the fork of the fork of the fork of the nokia linux that came with my nokia n900 many years ago is still going, which is really kind of amazing. But the n900 is pretty primitive at this point.)