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They don't want you to landfill it, they want to buy it back for half-market-value so they can resell it or reuse parts and metals. With cheap repairs you'd ge
by benologist 6y ago
They don't want you to landfill it, they want to buy it back for half-market-value so they can resell it or reuse parts and metals. With cheap repairs you'd get your MBP fixed for $300 instead of sell it back to Apple for $300. With upgradability you'd max out ram and storage and get additional years out of a computer that maybe only shipped with 128gb of storage and 8gb of ram because you didn't have a spare $2000 for soldered upgrades on day zero. It all just pushes and guides you back to Apple to return the machine you quasi-leased for a slight discount on the next.
- valuearb 6y agoQuasi-leased? My Macs have always lasted far longer than my Windows PCs, if that’s a lease it’s the lowest cost one ever.
- benologist 6y agoIf you're looking at pre-2016 hardware sure, we can look back and see this stuff still ticking along very nicely and setting new expectations on longevity. Anything since is stuck with soldered storage and whatever ram unless you upgrade the entire machine. Anything with a butterfly keyboard is dependent on a free keyboard replacement program that ends soon for the earliest models. OLED degrades over time so there's a TBD lifespan on touch bar screens. The iMacs and Mac Pro might last forever on the hardware side, but if Apple only needs two years to transition to their own hardware they'll have no software support long before the hardware is useless. None of this is going to last like the previous generation.