I didn't have much luck with Apple hardware. Every MBP I had mysteriously broke in some way or another.

The thing is, I just never cared, for about 10 years when I was an Apple user, because I would always ask my employer to buy new ones (for some strange reason MBP was a staple in most companies I worked in), so I never had an issue with spending a few k every couple of years to get a new MBP, because it was never my money.

When my last MBP (not even 2 years old) broke beyond repair (one morning it simply refused to come back from sleep) I decided to put an end to the abusive relationship and that's how I got to Framework.

I can't say that Framework components are better than the ones used by Apple, but when the laptop is designed in such a way that when something breaks it is impossible to fix (for example due to components being soldered to the motherboard) - then I call that bad design to the point that the quality of the components themselves is not relevant anymore.

What good is a machine that you can't (easily) replace the SSD or the RAM, and you have to buy a new one if something breaks? To me this is the pinnacle of terrible design.

Of course these terrible design anti-patterns reflect in the OS as well, and to the whole ecosystem, to the point that after many years of Apple use you become a brain-dead zombie. Things as simple as "plug a cable into your phone, open a file manager on your laptop, and copy your pictures or text files over" are simply impossible and you have to come up with clever ways of using iPhoto to copy over your pictures without duplicating them in some way that is hard to understand for mere mortals. How do people even manage to get anything done is beyond my understanding...

So given all these, I also feel like I have a moral duty to not buy anything from a company that makes such hard to use products.