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France has outlawed the practice as part of an environmental law.
by fmajid 6y ago
France has outlawed the practice as part of an environmental law.
- ineedasername 6y agoEasy to outlaw, difficult to prove unless the law also mandated minimum usable lifetimes & warranties for products. A company doesn't have to build in some sort of off switch to force obsolescence, all they have to do is use cheap parts to cut costs and put the burden of paying for maintenance on the buyer. Basically, planned obsolescence can be indistinguishable from a product that is cheaply made.
- simonh 6y agoThey also outlawed managing cpu utilisation in order to prolong device lifetimes, so apparently it’s illegal to try to extend device lifetime and also illegal not to. Robespierre and Cardinal Richelieu would be so proud.
- smoldesu 6y agoYeah, and manufacturers are allowed to assign their own repairability indexes to their products. That's how Apple ended up scoring the Macbook an 8, and the iPhone a 7.