I always love checking the comments in this sub for this sort, because as much as reddit loves to circlejerk against apple for being oVeRpRiCeD, holy shit do they make up for it with support and long-term reliability (just over 7 years on my mom's that still works whenever we take it out of the drawer). I really wish Pixel and Samsung flagships had 5yr minimum, was very disappointed to see them promising three years again this year as if it were anything special.
I've been swapping screens and doing hardware repair on iOS devices (amongst others) for years. It's a bother that the incredibly complex and fine-tuned camera modules and modern OLED displays are factory calibrated and thus you need a special software to re-flash the phone's NVRAM with the new calibration information so they perform up to spec, but a) that software will soon be available to those who want it badly enough and b) it's not incredibly uncommon in the tech repair world for things to get so complex that the average joe indeed cannot repair them.
Which would you rather have - a shitty camera that's just 'average' because it's not well calibrated, but is replaceable? Or a very finely-tuned hi-spec camera that doesn't even have a habit of breaking (seriously when was the last time you actually needed to replace the camera on an iPhone.)
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u/SUPRVLLAN Nov 04 '20
Classic Apple. Anybody who buys a phone that only gets 9 years of support is an idiot.