> Perhaps insufficient replacement rate and planned obsolescence los deemed inappropriate? I get what you're saying and I agree that that's probably the cause,

> Perhaps insufficient replacement rate and planned obsolescence los deemed inappropriate? I get what you're saying and I agree that that's probably the cause, but how perverse is that!? Used to be that it was the pride of a company and their engineers to create a device that lasted half a lifetime (or at least a reasonable amount longer than just two or three years, which is all you get now, if you're lucky). Planned obsolescence is illegal in many countries now (and rightly so), although difficult to prove and not punished enough, but I hope as a society we will find a way out out of the perverted incentivization that makes companies behave this way...