I don't believe that's true. Apple has always had a much more wholesale replacement strategy than other manufacturers. Even back in my CompUSA days, when I was

I don't believe that's true. Apple has always had a much more wholesale replacement strategy than other manufacturers. Even back in my CompUSA days, when I was the "Mac guy" in the shop, the other techs lamented how much easier my job was. There was a whole range of problems that Apple classified as a full system swap, where someone like HP would have replaced one or two components. They're still replacing screens, depending on the break. I had a screen replacement last year on my 12. It was just the screen. I believe they're more conservative about screen replacements though, and have a deep enough supply of refurb devices the math might just work out that it's faster/cheaper to just hand the consumer a new device.