> I never in my life purchased a brand new device with intention or plan to repair it. Devices don't last forever. What happens when inevitably, it fails? I do

> I never in my life purchased a brand new device with intention or plan to repair it. Devices don't last forever. What happens when inevitably, it fails? I don't want to be buying a new iPhone all the time — money still doesn't grow on trees — and even outside of Apple's ridiculously overpriced products, replacing e.g., my entire laptop¹ because a component failed is not enticing. Better if the design permits a $5 replacement, instead of a $70 or $700 replacement. And as an engineer, it hurts when you know a small change to the design could have made the repair $5 instead of $75, without impacting anything on the manufacturer's end — except, of course, the amount they're getting manufacturing replacement parts nobody needs! Not to mention the e-waste generated by re-manufacturing then entire device just to fix a single component. > What I expect is that it would never need a repair Alas, stuff breaks. Such is the world. > and if it needs a repair the vendor will handle it. … well, good luck finding such a vendor. Apple, in particular, does not offer compelling warranties. (Though IME warranties have shrunk across most vendors. Which is a proxy for quality: the manufacturer themselves don't think their device can withstand more than 1 or 2 years at most.) ¹phones are, unfortunately, extremely limited in what you can repair with almost any model on the market today. It's a shame.