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What's interesting about this perception is that PC vendors who do the same things don't catch flak. Presumably because there are still options for PC that are

What's interesting about this perception is that PC vendors who do the same things don't catch flak. Presumably because there are still options for PC that are at least theoretically repairable and built to last. I wonder what would happen in a hypothetical world where there were pro and non-Pro Apple laptops, but the only real difference between them were that the Pro laptops had replaceable parts, and were however much larger/heavier/pricier they need to be to make that happen, while the non-Pro ones are all soldered and riveted together. My guess is that the ones that are soldered together vastly outsell the pro line because that's what most Apple consumers want. And then economies of scale kick in until everyone's just mad that Apple is charging $500 "tax" just to be able to replace the hard drive and upgrade the RAM.

jotm 7y ago
That's because Apple is the only hardware provider for Mac OS X. If you just want Windows or Linux, you have a lot of choices. If you want OS X, there's no choice but to put up with whatever hardware Apple gives you.
- dkonofalski 7y ago
  That's not entirely true with Hackintoshes being a thing now.
  - jotm 7y ago
    That's only for exalted characters with nice hats and beards. If you want to run MacOSX legally without risking a lawsuit from Apple (they even went after a repair shop, FFS), you must use their hardware, as per the license agreement.
    - dkonofalski 7y ago
      >they even went after a repair shop, FFS They went after the repair shop for copyright infringement which the shop was guilty of. That's not the same thing at all.
ben-schaaf 7y ago
In my experience they do catch fairly significant flak. It's usually in the form of: This other laptop is pretty much identical except you can replace the ram and storage, so buy that instead.
arvinsim 7y ago
But then again as you pointed out, it's all hypothetical. It could easily be the other way around.

jotm 7y ago

That's because Apple is the only hardware provider for Mac OS X. If you just want Windows or Linux, you have a lot of choices. If you want OS X, there's no choice but to put up with whatever hardware Apple gives you.

dkonofalski 7y ago
That's not entirely true with Hackintoshes being a thing now.
- jotm 7y ago
  That's only for exalted characters with nice hats and beards. If you want to run MacOSX legally without risking a lawsuit from Apple (they even went after a repair shop, FFS), you must use their hardware, as per the license agreement.
  - dkonofalski 7y ago
    >they even went after a repair shop, FFS They went after the repair shop for copyright infringement which the shop was guilty of. That's not the same thing at all.

ben-schaaf 7y ago

In my experience they do catch fairly significant flak. It's usually in the form of: This other laptop is pretty much identical except you can replace the ram and storage, so buy that instead.

arvinsim 7y ago

But then again as you pointed out, it's all hypothetical. It could easily be the other way around.