Comment Re:Bandwidth (Score 1) 219
The claim is there to justify selling you new hardware every so often, usually the shorter time between purchases the better. And nobody even cares about e-waste, which is huge problem as well.
I do agree that e-waste, in general, is a huge problem, but Apple is also one of the better players in terms of taking electronics back and recycling (or at least pretending to recycle!) them.
I purchase computers for a ~30-40 person company. Apples tend to last about twice as long as the PCs we buy (Dells mostly, some Surfaces). The modern Apples from the last ~10 years have been some of the longest lasting models I've seen. It's true across the industry, but we basically have no reason to upgrade anymore until the hardware dies. Our older Intel computers are going to be forcibly aged out in the next couple of years, unfortunately, but for our workloads, we should be good for some time.