No surprises here. Just like the lockdown on iPhone screen and part replacements, Macbooks suffer from the same Apple’s anti-repair and anti-consumer bullshit. Battery glued, ssd soldered in and can’t even swap parts with other official parts. 6000$ laptop and you don’t even own it.
This is what utterly baffles me. I sometimes get made fun of for having an android (not for “being poor”, just different I guess). I’ll point out apples bs especially as a repair technician and they just shrug it off and reply “whatever”.
They don’t give a shit about the hardware, just the status and exclusivity.
I think it’s worth separating out vapid people like that from general Apple users.
I use iOS because:
yes, there’s stuff like grapheneOS that might be worth looking into, but that would still be me choosing a user interface I simply don’t prefer to use, and I’d need to figure out how to use that OS correctly to reap security benefits while still having access to apps (if it’s even feasible to do that for all the apps I need - don’t know the status of Google Play Protect these days).
yes, Apple’s hardware objectively sucks from a repairability perspective, and yes I’ve had their hardware crap out on me. I’m not sure if I’ll stick with them forever, for that and other reasons (anti-gamedev graphics library support, anti-consumer literally everything, lack of sideloading, etc.)
But, overall, I just prefer the software experience strongly. That’s it, and nothing to do with status. I know plenty of people in the same boat. The people who care about nothing but status, or make fun of someone for a device preference, are morons and should go fuck off :P