Apple's anti-repair and anti-refurbishment practices: Difference between revisions

|Type=Repairability, Repairability & Ownership Restriction, Digital restrictions, Planned Obsolesence, Planned Obsolescence, Service Termination

|Description=Apple's behaviors have contributed to the company's hardware being converted to e-waste, such as with removing legacy-supported software

}}Since the inception of the [[iPhone]] in 2007, [[Apple]] has contributed severely to the production of e-waste from its products by blocking consumers in various methods. This has ranged from [[Apple authorized repair|authorized repair]], to the blocking of sideloading 3rd-party software, and disposing of legacy apps and legacy appstore access.<!-- This might actually be a theme article now that I think about it...

Apple sells many of their base models with storage and memory specifications that are well below the industry average, despite the memory having to do double duty as both main memory and graphics card memory<ref>{{Cite web |last=Simon |first=Michael |date=2023-11-08 |title=Apple defends 8GB of RAM in the MacBook Pro as ‘analogous to 16GB’ in a PC |url=https://www.macworld.com/article/2130974/bob-borchers-defends-8gb-ram-macbook-pro-analogous-to-16gb-pc.html |access-date=2025-09-15 |website=Macworld}}</ref>. This gives users the choice between an underpowered base model, or paying a multiple of common industry prices<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hussain |first=Imran |date=2019-12-03 |title=Apple Sells 16GB RAM for $400 – Almost 700% Higher Price Than Other OEMs |url=https://wccftech.com/apple-sells-16gb-ram-for-400-almost-700-higher-price-than-other-oems/ |access-date=2025-09-15 |website=WCCFTech}}</ref> for higher-specc'ed versions. It should be noted that the price difference for the components that Apple would pay in manufacturing are within a few cents.