Something I can chime in on. We've been doing Mac/PC/iPhone @ our B&M repair shop since 2009. We've delayed a few hundred thousand pounds of e-waste from hittin

Something I can chime in on. We've been doing Mac/PC/iPhone @ our B&M repair shop since 2009. We've delayed a few hundred thousand pounds of e-waste from hitting the dump before it's truly EOL (doesn't sound like much but we're also retaining the customers familiar computing environment which is a huge value add). We've also enabled our customers to skip quite a few generations of upgrades due to extended operation of their existing hardware. To keep things simple: the parts used to achieve this were from computer recyclers across the US, not even once have we used parts from a manufacturer. There are quite a few reasons for this besides maintaining our profitability. We love high quality OEM parts. I have a feeling this will become a profit center for manufacturers and be priced just high enough that there's no room to justify maintaining hardware when repair labor costs are added to the equation. My opinion is the "Garbage by Design" lockouts that happen due to hardware/software/firmware locks, are going to be the main culprits preventing companies like mine from performing the same extended use of these tools and thus causing more "upgrades" and trashing cycles. I think the most important thing is that parts remain swappable without manufacturer intervention and red tape. Louis Rossmann and Hugh Jefferys also make great videos about these issues. -Typed on my 2011 17" Macbook Pro (16GB/1TB) while pulling 20W from the wall.