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"Defective by Design" Sounds like pretty much everything that's manufactured these days...
by oliv__ 10y ago
"Defective by Design"
Sounds like pretty much everything that's manufactured these days...
- lucb1e 10y agoDishonest by design I'd say. Many many vendors do not provide security updates[1], lock down their platform physically[2] and digitally[3], do not provide customer service[4], or make things that are intended to break before you may expect. There is 2-year warranty for electronics in the EU, but good luck suing some big American corp for your 1 year 11 month old device. [1] IoT & Android comes to mind. [2] Funny new screws in every iPhone come to mind, but of course there are a thousand product categories where the same happens. [3] DRM in any kind of way. I would personally count all closed source software in this category, but as a software engineer who might like to tweak a feature in the source, I have a different perspective on what "locked down software" means. [4] Google for any product, Microsoft for Windows, and many other such companies. Either they have a big fortune to not care about the couple of customers that run into trouble (e.g. Google), or they think it's not their responsibility since they don't sell directly to customers (Microsoft).