I wasn't making a value judgement about whether or not this is a good thing. I was just pointing out that many people do find this a good thing. The product is

I wasn't making a value judgement about whether or not this is a good thing. I was just pointing out that many people do find this a good thing. The product is more valuable than the price of the components to a large number of people. Whether or not that should be the case is better left to a different discussion. But the objective fact is that it's true for a huge number of people, and that provides an incentive for Apple to do more of the same. If people were buying tens of billions of dollars worth of your product every three months, what would you do? Make it worse? Not find ways to make it more profitable? I think you're incorrect about why Apple devices are not easy to repair and upgrade. But we may have to agree to disagree or have a different conversation about that.