&gt; Obviously there&#x27;s a very large target market of folks that just want their tech to work and will happily drop a few hundred bucks each time they need to upgrade or repair. But it&#x27;s hard to go back once you&#x27;ve opened up your computer and seen how cheap&#x2F;easy it is to replace some of these extremely modular components. I imagine my mindset will change as I get older and have less time&#x2F;more disposable income.<p>There is. I&#x27;m 33, and do devops&#x2F;infrastructure. I just want my rig to work. Macbook Air maxed out on ram and disk. To me, its disposable every three years (comes out to be ~$60&#x2F;month).<p>Apple is going to have to get pretty bad before I throw away the experience of walking into an Apple store, buying a new laptop, restoring from TimeMachine, and being up and running almost immediately.<p>As you mention, disposable income and a lack of time changes the equation.