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Although I would welcome this, I can't understand how such broad demands can be enforced. If the EU is really interested in increasing the lifetime of products
by jbmorgado 9y ago
Although I would welcome this, I can't understand how such broad demands can be enforced.
If the EU is really interested in increasing the lifetime of products, it's simple, just increase the mandatory warranty from 2 to 5 (or some other appropriate number) years.
That would right away, increase the lifetime of the products, but would also, put a strain on the manufacturers to make it easier to repair (after all, if you have to increase the number of repairs to your products, you are going to make it cheaper to repair it in order to save money).
- sigstoat 9y ago> That would right away, increase the lifetime of the products there's no guarantee of that. the manufacturers could just charge X times more, and expect on average to send 1.5 replacements out. (or less, most likely. folks who wouldn't bother to ask for warranty service, or lose the device first, or otherwise fail to satisfy the requirements of the warranty.)
- simion314 9y agoThey can charge more, but they need to compete with the others that will charge less if their own products are not breaking that often or if they have a cheaper way to repair instead of replacing the product.
- simion314 9y agoAlso if they get a lot of products back in warranty they will notice that if part X breaks often and they make a small change in design, maybe add some vibration or dust protection that would increase the part X longevity.