the problem with tech products is that they get outdated after a (relatively) short amount of time, so servicing them for a long time becomes unprofitable.

Apple not servicing the products isn’t the problem, it’s that Apple doesn’t want you to be able to service your product via a 3rd party either. Because they want you to buy a new device from them instead of getting it repaired.

I mean look, for people that aren’t power users who need to stay on the cutting edge, which is frankly most people. There is zero reason in this day and age a laptop can’t last you 5-10 years. Every youtube video you watch that shows how much better a new apple laptop is vs an old one or shit even in the PC space, they are running synthetic benchmarks. Running demanding video editting tools, 3D rendering tools.

Why don’t focus on is just surfing the internet or running basic productivity applications? Because the experience will be largely indiscernible. Maybe your browser will open, applications will load slightly faster, but hardly a thousands of dollars of value faster. Thats a lot more underwhelming than exporting a long 4k video in 3 minutes instead of the 15 minutes it took on the previous model.

My last desktop I built in 2013. I ran that PC until 2020 when I built a new one, which I finally did because the processor was no longer up to snuff for gaming. I still use that PC as a media center for my home theater and it functions perfectly fine in that role. The processing power and memory is still more than adequate after 10 years now. There is no point, I get the latest OS and software updates, the experience of doing what I do with that machine is largely indiscernible from my current main PC. There is zero value in me getting a new PC for that job.

I have had some issues with that PC and I fixed them…myself. If that was an apple product, depending on what went wrong I may have just been boned and needed to get a new machine, because Apple does things like push software updates that brick your machine if it has 3rd party parts in it (like they did to people that got broken screens fixed on their iphone by a 3rd party and had a 3rd party home button installed). How dare you inexpensively fix your iphone instead of buying a new one.

Point 4. They do everything in their power to prevent people from being able to fix their apple products instead of buying a new one, when they are out of warranty.

Because if I want to repair my 2-4k laptop the Genius bar is just gonna tell me I’m better off buying a new one, when the reality is it could be fixed for far cheaper, but Apple does everything in it’s power to prevent end users from being able to get their apple products repaired at reasonable prices when they are out of warranty.

All jokes aside, Cook isn’t wrong. If we don’t create some sort of rule set, things will get out of control quickly.

No they won’t. People are just tainted by decades of doom and gloom sci-fi regarding AI.

Giving Apple a loan to keep the company out of bankruptcy in the 90’s largely made the anti-trust stuff go away.