No, there are plenty of ways to buy digital only media, where you store it on your own drives.

I have a NAS full of media that I own that I bought. None of it physical.

Or, you know, buy media you can store on your own devices.

iPhones are more repairable than their comparable flagships from other companies. https://www.ifixit.com/smartphone-repairability

iFixit gave the 14 and 14 plus a 7 for repairability and a 6 for the pros, compared to a 3 for the Galaxy S22 and S22 ultra. The Pixel 6 pro only got a 5 and the base pixel 6 got a 6.

The 15 pro introduced more repairability with changing the back glass mechanism to be easily swappable, which was the biggest issue with earlier pro models and why they only got a 6.

They support phones longer than anyone else, and have a massively more robust recycling program to recapture virtually everything from older models and use them in new ones.

Also, plot twist, every company has the same model of encouraging you to buy a new one every year. That’s not specific to Apple in the least. Other companies essentially force you to upgrade sooner by dropping support entirely after a couple of versions while Apple supports for 5-7+ years.

Apple is always doing all of that other than the fokdable, which has been turned for a long time.

AirDrop and AirPlay are always getting better between Apple products. They literally just made the iPhone titanium for better durability. It has better battery life pretty much every year.

This one is more repairable than ever with the easily removable glass.

Those are all things Apple announces every year and everyone shits on them because it’s not innovative enough, like every year needs to be 2011 again when phones were making massive leaps year over year.

Like oh, this chip is only 20% faster than the last one with only 10% better battery life. Yawn.