Ohh Please. the "higher resale value" is simply a product of their insane new price, charging 100's of dollars for $30 of ram for example as to their retail

Ohh Please. the "higher resale value" is simply a product of their insane new price, charging 100's of dollars for $30 of ram for example as to their retail stores and "authorized repair" centers, I urge you to look at any of investigative reports on these place, or any of Louis Rossmann's video's, or read any of the 1000's of reports from consumer who have been denied repair or quoted repair costs that exceed the replacement cost of the device, or have been told that repair can not include data recovery, or about 100 other things Apple stores and apple "Authorized repair" shops are not Repair centers, they are board replacement houses. It is akin to having a fouled plug in my engine and the dealership telling me the only way to fix that is to replace the engine then they walk me over to the showroom to sell me a shiny new car... That is what the apple store is