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Even more general, consumer electronic products. Companies feel the need to not just earn money when they sell their product, but earn to even more over its wh
by chme 5y ago
Even more general, consumer electronic products.
Companies feel the need to not just earn money when they sell their product, but earn to even more over its whole lifetime. This refocuses their goal into providing products that regularly need some attention, which only they can provide, instead of creating the best product they can before it is sold, and let the customer and third-parties maintain it if necessary.
- userbinator 5y ago"You will own nothing, and be happy."
- elihu 5y agoIt's especially problematic for cars to be consumer electronics products, because the lifetime of a car can easily be twenty or thirty years. That's not the expectation for most consumer electronics devices.
- chme 5y agoWell... they would love to sell you an new one every couple of years!
- elihu 5y agoI know they would and a lot of people buy new cars at that frequency, but the old cars are going to keep getting used by somebody as long as they still function. If the infotainment system is dated and doesn't interoperate with the latest music file formats that's not the end of the world, but if the car has remotely-exploitable security flaws because it has an always-on network connection and the software hasn't been patched in years, that's a whole other problem. Then there's issues like that one with early versions of the Model S that had a flash chip that wore out prematurely. Tesla's "put everything on one big motherboard" approach is good for reliability and manufacturing because there aren't any connectors to deal with, but it (generally) means you have to replace the whole thing if something breaks.
- BlueTemplar 5y agoWhich itself is kind of a problem, especially now that Moore's law has slowed down...