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Look at desktop PCs. Millions sold, almost all with swappable parts. There's a difference with "not made with x in mind" and "purposefully difficult to do anyth
by grogenaut 9y ago
Look at desktop PCs. Millions sold, almost all with swappable parts. There's a difference with "not made with x in mind" and "purposefully difficult to do anything with".
If we want engineers who can build these products in the future it also helps that they can tear them apart as kids.
Again is that what you actually want to reward? Do you want to be able to use your IoT device a week after the startup goes under or apple decides that it's time to sell everyone a new $500 speaker?
- IntronExon 9y agoDesktop PC’s are upgradeable by design, and frankly require repair pretty regularly. This is some IoT shit that will have support pulled before it can break and I suspect that you know that.
- KozmoNau7 9y agoI honestly can't remember the last time I had to repair anything on my desktop PC, but I think it was a hard drive (which I promptly replaced with an SSD). It's been running flawlessly since 2011.
- IntronExon 9y agoWhile admirable, 7 years of no repair, upgrades, or replacement is not the norm.
- KozmoNau7 9y agoEvery desktop I've owned, I've replaced because it eventually got too slow to be practical. I still have a 733MHz P3 and a 350MHz K6-2 somewhere, both probably still work just fine. Computers don't just break randomly.