[simion314]

The consumer can compete with the billions or PR?

I think you did not understand the point and responded from reflex. Let me simplify it down;

Consumers try to explain that throwing away good devices because the battery is old is bad for the world is not effective enough because it is fighting billions spent in PR that shows you that you need the new device because is slimmer,smarter,cooler and the big companies is doing the best to recycle this products(we send them in China where the smartest of our employees(that are definitely not children) are recycling every atom. So continue buying new things, you don't want your friends thinking you are poor and have the old models don't you?

Is it clear now? You are not forced to buy anything, unless you are forced by a job or social group to use certain apps but you would probably argue that you are not forced and you can quit your job and find other friends.

[76543210]

I haven't considered that the lower class needs to buy Apple products as a status symbol.

Is this really a problem?

As an educated 10%er, seeing Apple products is an immediate red flag that the person falls for marketing.

[simion314]

I know of children demanding iPhones because with an Android is impossible to iMessage(or video chat) with their friends.

I also know cases where a child from a modest family spent the money he earned on Fortnite cash. There is a group pressure to own certain things otherwise you are excluded.

Anyway my main point is about some regular citizens fighting a giant PR(propaganda) campaign is not easy. I follow some of Louis Rossman videos where he shows how politicians debate the right to repair and it is so clear how Apple and big companies PR succeeded in having those politicians putting more importance on copyright over repair schematics(because trade secrete). preventing repairing consoles(because pirates) and preventing replacing bateries(because fires and explosions). How much money and effort is needed to make a contra PR move to show people that batteries don't just explode if the repair person does not a paper that he is Apple genius or that making repair components accessible and repiar schematics accessible will not make video games more easy to pirate. Then there is also the idea that if you have access to rep[air your tractor then you can do dangerous stuff , thing that is ridiculous considering you can repair your car and then use it on a public road (not like tractors that are mostly used on private property)