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I know it's trendy to hate on Apple in this type of community, but why is all the blame for their unrepairability laid at his feet? Did he decide all that on his own? He DID have bosses, yes? They have meetings on all this stuff. Someone sat in a meeting and told Ive to "design it so it's a closed system" or whatever.

Don't get me wrong, Ive was a huge part of it, no doubt. But he didn't do this alone.

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I think the consensus is that after Jobs was gone, Cook gave Ivey a lot of power to make these decisions on his own.

Because people need traffic and attention.

Ive had limited responsibility over which features went into the products or how repairable they were. That responsibility goes to Product Marketing, Hardware Engineering etc. The design team ultimately works within a box defined by others.

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