argumate:mitigatedextras:argumate:fantabulisticity:It’s called “planned obselecence” (I know I spell
argumate:mitigatedextras:argumate:fantabulisticity:It’s called “planned obselecence” (I know I spelled that wrong). Companies learned they can make more money if they plan for their their products to stop working after a relatively short amount of time. Capitalism in action #ThisIsTheBadTimelineit’s called crumple zones so you survive the crash, goddamn.Planned obsolescence is definitely a thing, but it’s more for electronic devices like smartphones than for cars.my iPhone 6S came out three years ago and still works absolutely fine, and the latest (free) software update apparently increased the battery life.Most of the obsolescence of older computing devices is less “planned” than it is “we write more heavy code that doesn’t run on old machines”. I’ve revived laptops from 10 years ago and kept them running snappy but that only works until you install someone’s modern program that expects access to a high speed internet connection and 8GB of RAM. The internet is kinda bad about this, I’ve definitely seen webpages that reimplement basic functionality in expensive JavaScript bring an otherwise simple webpage grinding to a halt.Android phones are a shitshow, though, thanks to reliance on the vendor to provide upgrades that many just, don’t do. If you don’t buy an absolute top of the kind flagship there’s a good chance you don’t receive more than one software updates before they decide not to support you anymore. This can be fixed but not easily or well, because the android ecosystem is kind of a trash fire and I hate it. I’m never sure if android’s sorry state of updates is intentional on the part of the companies making the phones or just business sense of “why would we spend money on devices we’ve already sold, hurr bdurrr”. -- source link