In terms of being a functional system which allows for political dissent, unlike the Soviet Union and every other communist country
The difference between capitalism and communism is that communism requires everyone to believe in it and participate in it or corruption takes over, but capitalism works whether you believe in it or not.
There's still corruption in capitalist societies, but sometimes the ability to have political dissent keeps the corruption from completely destroying the system. In communist countries the control of the Party is more like a feature than a bug..
Are you ignoring the effort to clear their supply chain and own engineering of all sorts of chemicals known to be toxic during manufacture, use, and recycling/disposal?
The process is inherently a waste of resource, you can make it as efficient as you want, selling airpods with glued batteries, 200 millions phones per year, pushing people to continuously upgrade, &c. is an unsustainable waste
This is like the aviation industry, rolls royce making their engine 5% more efficient over a decade is nice, if in the meantime we multiplied the number of flights by 30 we're still fucked
So yes apple removed some plastic wraps and uses a bit of recycled aluminum, its all marketing, carbon neutrality isn't a thing, green capitalism isn't a thing, it's a feel good marketing slogan for 30 years old techbros buying a new apple watch every 9 months
Well you're making my point... when the tiny ass battery inevitably fails after being cycled 1-3 times per day every day you have to get rid of the whole otherwise perfectly fine working product because no one can swap the battery in an economically viable way
How efficient is that ? You could have a screw in battery taking the same amount of space and allowing a basically unlimited life, but I guess I'm not a "genius™"
Just so you know this is how e waste is "recycled":