Neither of those are reasonable arguments. They're arguments, but not reasonable. No one is guaranteed a fixed level of cost-of-sales or profit, so reduced prof

Neither of those are reasonable arguments. They're arguments, but not reasonable. No one is guaranteed a fixed level of cost-of-sales or profit, so reduced profit is just part of business. Figure it out, it's 100% not the consumer's problem. And they're arguably NOT arguments at all, as doing something to make your product less repairable is generally MORE expensive that NOT doing that thing. Most of the time in product manufacture, costs come from performing actions, so by not performing actions, those costs go away. That's what these laws are usually about, skipping repair-unfriendly design choices, making repair documents available (that's free, they already exist, companies need not keep them secret/internal), and not creating software locks that are only for keeping out "unauthorized" repairs. Apple could save money by using all hex/phillips screws and doing away with pentalobe screws as they'd have few different items to buy and use. Apple could save a really good deal of money using NVMe drives, or an open standard for flash-chip boards like in the M4 Mini, because currently they waste a lot of engineering resources on their proprietary solutions. Devices with ultrasonically welded plastic cases could skip the ultrasonic welding step and just use clips on the plastic frame. Etc.