The “better resale value” thing needs to be addressed. People keep using this as evidence of the Mac or iphone’s longevity, but I hardly doubt that’s the cause

The “better resale value” thing needs to be addressed. People keep using this as evidence of the Mac or iphone’s longevity, but I hardly doubt that’s the cause for the better resale value. Broken, non-working Mac products also have better resale value than the equivalent Windows products. It seems far more likely the better resale value is simply because (a) Their parts have higher value due to Apple using proprietary parts, rather than cheap openly available parts, making them valuable for repairers (b) Apple does not sell products below a certain price range, so if someone’s kid wants a portable Mac, but they can’t afford to spend more than $500, they have to go the second hand route. In the Windows world you have a plethora of new devices available at a fraction of the cost of any new device, therefore making it impossible for the old device to hold its value since it isn’t competing only with its original price.