wait till it breaks and Apple’s answer is “buy a new one”
Breaks?
What is this ‘breaks’ you talk about.
My old iMac from 2010 is still going strong. Although it is only worth about $100 now.
Although, when I did spill a drink in the keyboard and toasted it...
What happened?
I had a thirty minute window to get a new keyboard before I had to get to work. I walked into the crowed (they were always packed) Mac store.
I was greated instantly - about midway into the store.
I said seven words...
The man said hold on, went and grabbed a new keyboard, took my old one and sent me on my way.
Seven words !
Now that was service !!!
My niece had a Mac for 10 years and it never broke. If I get a reasonable use out it I will be satisfied .
Totally not true. Everything I've bought from Apple starting in 2003 (with the iPod) is still functional today. Granted, I have no real need for that original iPod but if I plug it in today, it will still function just as it did nearly 20 year ago and will still have those old Pearl Jam and Oasis songs loaded on it.
I have a 2011 MacBook Pro that a few years back lost it's display. It was just turning five years old at that point and I took it to the Apple store, figuring they'd tell me to buy a new one (and I would have). But no, they told me this was a known issue and they had a fix for it. Free of charge. I picked it up the next day and it was just like new. I still have it today but it has been retired in favor of the Air.
Of late, I'm of a mind that Mac is one of the few products that I'd recommend getting the extended warranty. Mine already paid off when the surface of several keys on my MacBook Pro wore off, actually making the letters unreadable. Wore the black plastic right off.
This happened right as it was exiting the 1 year warranty. Fortunately, I had an extra 2 years of "AppleCare" and as a result, got the entire top assembly, including the battery, replaced at about 13 months of age. Hopefully, they didn't use as cheap of materials on this keyboard as they did the last.
I think Steve Jobs would be pretty PO'ed about the QC of more recent Mac products - they were always expensive, but until a few years ago, were also pretty well built.