Yes
replyYes they did. Reminder: your experience is 11 years ago and several Intel and ARM generations old. Also it’s more than $3 Trillion in revenue ago.
replyThey’ve gotten largely more repairable since then, including adhesives you can electrically debond.
replyThat's a relatively recent development. Repairability has been very poor for quite a while, but now they're finally starting to improve the situation somewhat.
reply...electrically debond, are you serious? More details please, this sounds very interesting.
replyVideo (use SponsorBlock): https://youtu.be/M6jBXI6CR9s?t=156
replyArticle: https://www.ifixit.com/News/100352/we-hot-wired-the-iphone-1...
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41623251
Not $3 trillion in revenue; a $3 trillion market cap.
replyhttps://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AAPL/apple/revenue
replyOver 11 years, they exceeded $3 trillion in revenue, actually. I knew it was a lot, hadn't actually looked at the totals before. 2015-2025 sums to $3.429 trillion.