> It's as if their hardware is meant to be e-waste. But the chassis is made from 100% recycled aluminum!~ On a serious note, Apple has a simple and working st

> It's as if their hardware is meant to be e-waste. But the chassis is made from 100% recycled aluminum!~ On a serious note, Apple has a simple and working strategy, to which they're 100% committed: repair only in authorized service points, otherwise recycle. Making devices user-repairable adds costs and compromises on specs; you can't put a number on the disks being replaceable as easily as you can put a number on size, IO bandwidth, or number of write cycles, and numbers is what looks good on benchmarks. You also have to consider Apple's scale: they have literally billions of deployed devices (everything from AirPods to Mac Pros) that they need to support, so what could work for a different vendor won't necessarily work for them. (I don't necessarily agree with that strategy from end-user POV, merely pointing out the context.)