That's a problem of labour costs rather than design. It sucks for your homeless customers, but I can't understand your outrage. By your definition, these phone

That's a problem of labour costs rather than design. It sucks for your homeless customers, but I can't understand your outrage. By your definition, these phones would only be "repairable" if they were vastly more expensive to buy. Does it really help low-income customers if the cheapest phones available are several hundred dollars? These phones are primarily intended for the developing and middle-income world, where lower labour costs make them perfectly economical to repair.