Apple's goal is to make sleek, elegant, easy to use products. Repairability hurts every one of those goals. Products that are easy to repair have to make concessions to allow users to access the innards with ordinary tools. Apple won't stand for those concessions.

well I believe this is not true. Smart product design can be both. iPod Video is a sleek device yet not too hard to open. Why did Apple move to pentalobe screws? To make it harder for us people to reapir the products. It's a mentality and stating that this hurts the design of a device is simply an excuse for this. I'd like to know how ease of repair makes a product harder to use? If we look at the newer HP all-in-one, we can see that they are well designed sleek and easy to use, yet they get 10/10 for repairability on iFixit.

I hope that this is constructive criticism as my aim is not to provoque you. We're all friends here.