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Connectors are points of failure. The less of them, the more reliable.
SSDs are a more common point-of-failure. You want it socketed unless you're shipping redundant flash modules.
But in absolute terms, sockets do make things more likely to fail. A socketed design means you have an assembly step where something is put into that socket. Probably manually. Cables and sockets can be tugged at and twisted. Dirt and moisture can get in between. Suppliers can use the wrong metal in connectors. Some errors will be caught by QC, which means that you never see them, but they still affect the manufacturer's bottom line.
Like bot403 said: "Just depends on what your priorities are."
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Please don't act like a jerk on HN. There are articles and comments criticizing Apple all the time and it's fine.