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I don't really see the long term problem. When light bulbs truly stop needing to be replaced, they will stop being _replaceable_. The market that will disappear
by tmm 10y ago
I don't really see the long term problem. When light bulbs truly stop needing to be replaced, they will stop being _replaceable_. The market that will disappear is the light socket market. Consumers will buy a lamp with a permanently wired in LED and when they get tired of the way the lamp looks, they'll replace it along with the LED in it. This is already happening in wall and ceiling fixtures.
- ars 10y agoI considered buying a few of those, but I realized that if one lamp in the room failed, but the others were good, I'd have to replace them all since I'd be unlikely to be able to find an exact match. So I decided to buy regular fixtures with replaceable bulbs. The non replaceable kind only makes sense in places where you need light, but you don't see the actual fixture (for example edge lighting a room or stairs).