[franga2000]

Any chance you'd consider the out there idea that some people: 1. don't want to fill up landfills with 90%-functional devices that they're too lazy to have repaired 2. can't afford to spend more than a month's salary on a brand new but functionally identical device every two years 3. might have data that's important to them on the device that they want recovered.

Just because you wish to be a careless consumer doesn't mean that that's what everyone is and that we shouldn't put pressure on Apple to allow those that don't to use their devices as they wish.