I mean, they almost certainly have built in backdoors like IME. When you can force hardware manufacturers to add shit, you don't have to think up convoluted solutions like that.
It can't have a longer life than something that's repairable and upgradable.
Even if we imagine Apple used the highest quality components, which they most certainly didn't, anything dying means you need to completely replace the internals of your device. It's like saying a car that needs an engine replacement because of a dead spark plug can have a long life.
Inb4 "But it's easier for people to join, everyone has discord"
If someone can't take 2 minutes to register to a forum/Lemmy/whatever they're not going to give any good contributions to your community... Those are the same lazy bastards that create a post instead of literally googling their title and getting the answers immediately.
Plenty wrong with Ubuntu.