They made the worst laptop keyboard of the last 3 decades, and put it in their $1000 laptops, AND then refused to update it until 2019 when it could've been fixed a whole year earlier.

Straight junk, forced onto all of their laptop buyers for multiple model-year updates.

Sure, they have a reputation for quality today (in general), but that wasn't even a decade ago and you've already forgot. Classic apple discourse.

But they still make repairs very difficult in case of accidental damage, random failure, or inevitably battery wear.

Glued batteries, soldered storage, keyboards and screens that absolutely aren't designed to be swapped out in the event of damage. There's still an element of planned obsolescence even if reliability/quality generally seems better than the competition.

Are you talking of Apple Records? They're mostly valuable because of the Beatles. Vinyls rarely break under normal usage.

I'm sure you're not referring to the flaky accessory company.

> Apple's MO has never been to make junk that breaks.

Have you never used their cables? I don't think I've seen a single Apple cable lasting more than a few years if they're being used daily, the only ones that last are the ones that are kept static for the entire time.

Their computing hardware is great otherwise, no disagreement there. But their cables are the polar-opposite of whatever engineering methodologies they use for their computing hardware.