The short-lived electronics could be passable for the manufacturers if it was just about that (hey, obsolescence with plausible deniability for free!) But I th

The short-lived electronics could be passable for the manufacturers if it was just about that (hey, obsolescence with plausible deniability for free!) But I think their real problem will be that this will cause even more chips to be discarded during quality assurance and this rate will bleed into electronic prices. If we'd be looking at 20% or 30% more expensive electronics _beyond_ the pricings warranted by performance improvements themselves (otherwise eating into their profit margins from R&D costs etc), will consumers keep purchasing these without batting an eye? But a sense of scales is also necessary here. If a modern CPU lasts for 15 years and this might be a reduction to 8-10 years, I think many will swallow that. If we're however talking reducing lifespans from 10 years to four, well then we are going to see complaints.