Do Apple products die after a given time?

My iMac is three and a half years old and keeps freezing! Will not boot consistently, after waking from sleep the Apps running are non functional. Engineers don't know why?? Also, my Time Capsule died after two years and I had to buy another. Could have had 4/5 PC's for the money!!
These problems have caused me much loss of time/money not to mention the inconvenience and potential loss of data.
I have recommended iMac and other Apple products to large numbers of people, whom I hope don't have the same problems as me. My confidence in Apple has taken a huge dent. It seems that the only way the engineers can fix the machine to keep changing components!! In the meantime, I can't get on with my endeavours to make a living.
Chris Anderson
Shoreham
West Sussex
UK

Engineers don't know why??
You've had this in for a proper diagnosis? Who are the "engineers?"
You may have several concurrent issues. But we need more specifics to be able to help.
In the meantime, Applejack may help. At the prompt, type in "applejack AUTO" and let it run through its agenda.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/applejack/
Article on using
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-10334620-263.html?tag=mfiredir
The first boot after will be slower than usual and it may take several restarts for you to see the benefits, if any.
You should also run the Hardware Test in extended.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1509

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