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I think what we really need is strong, mandatory warranties for everything. It should just be law that an appliance like a fridge or TV are expected to last 10

I think what we really need is strong, mandatory warranties for everything. It should just be law that an appliance like a fridge or TV are expected to last 10 years (and adjust this value for all expected product lifetimes) And if samsung pushes out a software update that breaks the original experience (adding adverts for example) you are entitled for at least a partial refund. So if you owned it for 9 years and on the 9th they added adverts, you get a 1/10th refund. That way it becomes unprofitable to pump out IoT junk and then discontinue support a year later.

avmich 6y ago
> I think what we really need is strong, mandatory warranties for everything. Maybe, but laws so far are slow and being circumvented in some areas of significant commercial interest. Maybe some technological approach could be better. A crude example - we already have more and more available spectrometers, which can analyze surface composition of many things, from which some properties can be estimated; of course, it's a long way to "quality meter".
avmich 6y ago
> And if samsung pushes out a software update With software we can have some differential analysis systems. Maybe we can have a working system where the software is analyzable - say, is stored on an easily analyzable module. Then we can try to check changes...