Your trying to give them credit "trend setting" but none of these "trends" are for the benefit of the end user. This company is so fucking avarice that they make the likes of EA and Activision-Blizzard look like fucking charities. Every aspect of every single one of their products are designed from the ground up to leech as much money from thier customer base as possible. The manipulative marketing, the overpricing, the proprietary connectors/accessories and their continued denial of right to repair. The worst thing is they have successfully manged to hook their consumer base to such an extreme extent that they will applaud their inferior, overpriced products and worse than non-existent customer service.
You seen the Louis Rossmann video I posted right? The woman brought her MacBook to an Apple store because it wasn't charging properly and they told her that the pins on the battery connection were bent and they would have to replace the logic board the cost of $425... both of these were flat out lies! The pin's weren't bent, it was just loose and even if they were at worst it's the battery that needs replaced, not the board! Why are they lying? Simple, Apple would have replaced the board (probably with one they got from some other poor sap through this disgusting practice) then put hers in another "broken" MacBook and sell to somebody else They are discussing! This not an isolated incident either, they pull this kind of shit all the time. Check out the guys channel, he set up shop close to an Apple Store and it's packed to the brim with stories like this.