[cfr2023]

There is no demonizing taking place - they make shit that objectively lasts longer (good), but they glue it shut when they don't need to (bad).

The latter is such a poor environmental choice, that it negates the former, but you don't see it yet.

[KennyBlanken]

> there is no demonizing taking place

Buddy, you just said, and I quote: "lying about their portfolio of dystopian horrors and banal inconveniences."

Get a grip.

[cfr2023]

I have a strong grip on the meaning of these words and the organization I have observed as a customer and user for decades.

How about you get a dictionary and encyclopedia and learn what dystopian horrors and banal inconveniences are?

Then look at Apple's factories, mining operations, glued together, locked down, borderline unrepairable products, and a big old pile of lightning cables and see that is an apt, fair and even charitable description of their activities.

Or you can just take yours and grip them to your chest and cry, whatever works for you.

[riversflow]

> they glue it shut when they don't need to (bad).

Disagree. Glue isn't really that hard to deal with and likely makes the phone substantially more waterproof. It's really not hard, at all, to deal with glue, it's typically dissolves in acetone and only requires mild heat to overcome.

[cfr2023]

I'm using "glue" as a stand-in for all of the measures they use to lockdown their products when there is no physical need for it.

Nonetheless, you're selling "typically dissolves in acetone" as a user friendly, easy to repair, best in the industry experience? Should we give them a special award with text that is flanked by sprigs of wheat?

You don't realize how low you are setting the bar here.