Apple iPad: Overpriced spare parts intended to pressure customers into upgrading instead of repairing

[Redaktion]

Apple has been offering replacement parts for the iPad, iPad Air and iPad Pro for a few months now. However, independent repair providers claim that the parts are deliberately overpriced so that customers are forced to upgrade to a new iPad instead.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-iPad-Overpriced-spare-parts-intended-to-pressure-customers-into-upgrading-instead-of-repairing.1078312.0.html

[Bizarro_NikoB]

Not sure why this is surprising to anyone.

Apple has made it very clear that every business and engineering decision revolves around extracting as much revenue as humanly possible from their consumer base through planned obsolesence.