Re: Just like Apple
"I admit this is anecdotal"
Everyone has their anecdotes. FWIW, I never had an iPhone, but I have an iMac that has run without trouble for years, mostly always on, just needed a RAM upgrade at some point. Also I had an old (2nd gen I think) iPod nano, subject to a recall even though there seemed to be nothing wrong with mine. Got a brand new latest-gen one (4th or 5th?) as a replacement. I guess that given Apple's success, anecdotes aside, on aggregate they do a very good job.
It might be "overpriced" at the point of purchase, but how much does it cost to have to deal with broken stuff? If it costs you 5-10 hours over the lifetime of a device to do fixes, how much is your time worth and how does factoring that in to teh cost of the device change the balance of "overpriced"?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
