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> The only way to stop waste is to reach the point where you make a phone so good you don’t need a new phone for a very long time. We may be reaching that point
by neuralRiot 7y ago
> The only way to stop waste is to reach the point where you make a phone so good you don’t need a new phone for a very long time. We may be reaching that point soon within the next decade.
Do you seriously think manufacturers would ever do that?
- t-h-e-chief 7y agoHehehe They tried that with light bulbs in the US. The electric companies colluded to crush it and it became the start of planned obsolescence. I think Eastern Germany under Soviet rule made an amazingly cheap and efficient light bulb, but it didn't survive the fall of the Berlin wall - not enough money in it.