How so? Inability to extend the life of the device is environment neutral?
Does Apple make parts available for their products? If you want to replace the charging chip, can you get it from Apple? Or do you need to take a bus, train, a car to go to Apple store, to have them then ship the entire device god knows where, to replace whole motherboard and then ship it back? How is that has nothing to do with environment?
Apple products last longer than the competition. You can verify this in any manner you please: there is a robust aftermarket in everything Apple, and in at least phones, laptops, and tablets, the Apple offering will last longer in the wild than comparable products from other companies.
Perhaps the most virtuous thing is to reduce tablets by not having one. But let's say you want one, an iPad will be used by someone or other for ten years, an Android tablet... won't be.
> there is a robust aftermarket in everything Apple, and in at least phones, laptops, and tablets, the Apple offering will last longer in the wild than comparable products from other companies.
And these devices could last even longer if independent repair shops or users themselves could repair them.
Unfortunately Apple has a habit of telling their suppliers to not sell parts to 3rd parties.
Modern electronic gizmos last as long as the underlying software is supported by the manufacturer. The bits are the first part that wear out, unless supplied by Apple.
Having spent some time in southeast Asia, I can assure you that if you break the screen on your iPhone 5, someone can put a new one in for you. Good luck finding a sceen replacement for any contemporary phone: not that you would be carrying it, since the version of Android it would be running would be so out of date and insecure that the parasitic malware would render it unusable.
Additionally Apple supports their devices far longer than any other company.