As a side note, I always liked this approach: http://surfacepro3ssdupgrade.blogspot.it/2015/02/surface-pro-3-ssd-upgrade-i7-with-1-tb.html http://surfacepro3ss

As a side note, I always liked this approach: http://surfacepro3ssdupgrade.blogspot.it/2015/02/surface-pro-3-ssd-upgrade-i7-with-1-tb.html http://surfacepro3ssdupgrade.blogspot.it/2015/02/surface-pro... to change the SSD in a Surface 3. (you need some guts to follow it) But still it is possible, and it is clear that making a "proper" small cover/latch door for allowing changing that would have costed nothing or next to nothing to MS, and added nothing to thickness, so it is IMHO a "political" decision to accelerate the obsolescence of these devices or to attempt to create a repair monopoly, not unlike what Apple attempted (and to a certain extent managed to succeed with).