Why is the Screen Repair so expensive?

I just dropped my Apple Watch and the top of the Apple Watch is pretty shattered so I went on the website I have apple care for it that expires in June 2020 so I thought the right thing was to get it repaired because I must not be expensive for a series 4 turns out to ship it out to Apple and repair would cost $451 CAD with Apple care .Thats absurd so I’m just gonna use it till it breaks and then get a series 5 but it’s insane how my 44millineter series 4 that I have I paid $520 for it and a screen repair is %85 of the total cost like it’s absurd Apple has serious problems there mark ups for repair are crazy it would cost probably $10 for them to repair but no repair shops do it because it’s so fragile but when they repair it it’s a fully automated robot that replaces the broken screen and puts a new one.

At the factory they are done by robot with people doing the tedious work. Sweat shops. Yeah been repairing things for over 30 yrs. Apple has a sucker base, why someone keeps them in business, i will never know. But yeah the screens are made by Canon usually and are made by robots and about 6 bucks of material if that, the oled that they tout is special can be made in 5 to 6 mins at 300 to 400 square ft, Dupont has a machine faster that only cost 30k to make. But Apple has been one of the first to make things cheaper in quality and jack the price up to see how far idiots will go, im surprised that they are getting 3 to 4 good paychecks out of folks these days and steadily going up. Sad thing is the products are getting less for more money while they make you think you got something better? The computers might have been a little slower 15 yrs ago but you got quality , you cant even get physical drives or extra slots now and the main board is a joke now and its 5 times the price.

Zero respect for ultra precise, beautifully crafted mass produced products…that seem to always “just work”. Unlike any other consumer company on the planet. 20 google homes in my house, and the pieces of garbage work correctly 1/4 of the time. Yet my apple HomePods control my smart home stuff precisely as I want them to. And that’s just one example.