I used to be an apple certified repair technician. Fuck apple and everything they do.
Their hardware is purposely designed to be as unrepairable and difficult to get into as possible. They literally spent millions developing their own new screw types for the inside of their phones. Diabolical evil shit.
Their software is also ass, but I haven’t ever daily used any apple products in my life so I am less annoyed by that. I only had to know how to fix em for years. Every time I have to trouble shoot a user issue on Mac it takes me like twice as long to fix because again they design it to be hard to fix things.
Stupid company. Shitty products. Microsoft and windows are right behind them though. Good lord has windows just continued to get worse and worse over the course of my life.
Yeah ~2014-2015 I think is when they started really soldering everything together and adding adhesive or their new special screws to everything.
Edit: fat fingered wrong year