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Apple supports and repairs phones for a long time. It's not about sustainability, it's about the price Apple charges for repairs. What is so sustainable about having and using the right to mount a cheap, bad battery that will have to be replaced again in a year or so?

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Things have a long tail. The world is unstable. Politics can suddenly change and now you're throwing tons of things in the trash not because the items cannot be fixed, but that Apple directly cannot sell you parts.

It's not you can magically repair any Apple phone if only they made parts replaceable. The tiny amount of phones that can't be repaired due to 'world unstability' is probably irrelevant to the general climate/environment problem.

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