What you mean by "ease of repair"? How is the ROM getting busted up that you need to reflash the phone?
I don't get how the NES was designed for "maintainability" or "longevity" while the XBox was not. They're both disposable consumer products.
A company that creates a device and directly states "buy something else if you want to modify this" probably didn't make that power connector a replaceable part because it was "easier to just affix it with 2cm of glue."
It's a fundamental issue with the attitude MOTO is presenting.
In all likelihood, Junior is going to throw the phone away and get an ad-subsidized Droid 7 for free. Let's face it, all of this hardware is disposable now. Ask your local VCR repairman.
why do you think throwing away, rather than improving, something that so much energy, material and other resources went into creating, is a good idea?
i replace devices when they are no longer of use to me, or if something significantly more useful comes along. actually useful not hype.
i got my current phone in 2005: i only have one phone, and this phone works well. i've repaired this phone: a year ago it fell in water and stopped working so i stripped it down, cleaned it up, checked for obviously blown circuits, replaced bits until it worked again.