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Maybe not.
The inability for devices to have some sense of longevity is a huge problem - people have been complaining about planned obsolescence for years (albeit for more economic reasons). Making the machine dependent on every single part working every single day is dangerous.
Scary - and hard to turn a blind eye to it. Clouds of smog are one thing but there's even more dire consequences to the direction the industry is taking...
I won't bore you with links - but if you're interested in how bad of a problem this really is, just Google "e-waste consequences" and prepare yourself for an eye-opening experience.
I don't mean to sound like a zealot or an environmentalist nut, but I think this is a problem we can solve quite easily - and in turn, reap economic benefits from as well as create jobs. We just all have to admit that it's a problem and stop apologizing for companies that contribute to it (and Apple is not alone in this).