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Why your gadgets die so quickly
- haspoken 4y agohttps://archive.ph/PhF1A https://archive.ph/PhF1A
- jakzurr 4y agoThanks for posting. I think this is a decent article - hopefully we'll see some interesting comments.
- hyperman1 4y agoMaybe the fact that we design them with computers and modern quality makes the die quicker. Suppose you design a device, and you want to give a 2 year warranty. Every device brought in before this eats in your profit. So you design with a safety margin, using components that on average last 3 years. Now you design them with a computer. You can simulate the heat profile of the whole thing, move some troublemaker components around, where a pen-and-paper designer would need to guestimate. So you can produce a cheaper device by lowering the safety margin to 2.4 years.
- jakzurr 4y agoMy Galaxy Note 3 lasted about 10 years, by generally charging it to about 50% most of the time. Charged it to about 80% before bus rides, or before meetings. Finally had to replace it due to Sprint shutting down in Seattle region (phone was carrier locked). Never replaced the (replaceable) battery. Still have 2 old 17" crt monitors for emergency & trouble-shooting. Still have 3 old LCD monitors - one dead pixel in all, each 10+ years old. Devices can last a heck of a long time, with care and luck. But not when manufacturers start getting slimy like this article describes.