There is lots of ideology in your post that blinds you and make you don't see reality. The concept of "planned obsolescence" is wrong in so many levels. It mak

There is lots of ideology in your post that blinds you and make you don't see reality. The concept of "planned obsolescence" is wrong in so many levels. It makes companies bad and customers good, but the reality is that most of what people call "planned obsolescence" is just offering products cheap enough. The fact is that most people want to buy as cheap as possible, and today polymers could make things extremely cheap to manufacture, but polymers do not last like good quality metals or polymers. You sell at the store a washing machine with the drum made in stainless steel or polymer and most people choose the polymer one, because it is so cheap, compared to manufacturing in steel. You put as an example capacitors that pop and leak as part of the "master plan of planned obsolescence". Most of the capacitors leaking in the millions were the consequence of China doing industrial espionage of Western companies, selling those caps super cheap, but doing it badly and those millions of caps failing very early. Of course the same people that buy cheap and put with their decisions out of business the quality product, then will complain about the cheap product when it fails. Most companies just can not manufacture high quality products because it is so expensive for them, and will not be able to recoup the investment, not enough people will buy. Apple can do that and does that. Their products are high quality. They use high quality materials like aluminum to make their computers, and almost nobody can compete with them because they sell in volume. For example they manufacture clocks with a precision that no company in the world used in volume before they did. You can like or dislike what they do, but insulting them only shows how biased are you against them.