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I work in an electronics OEM, and I can tell you that all our products have a variety of age-related failure modes. We design them to last a long time, but not
by nickff 4y ago
I work in an electronics OEM, and I can tell you that all our products have a variety of age-related failure modes. We design them to last a long time, but not forever. LEDs age, as do capacitors, transistors, and batteries. Electro-mechanical systems are even worse!
- tiagod 4y agoSo you're not designing them to fail, your designing them to last at least X years/uses (but it can last more in theory). In this case, the printers are literally designed to fail. Once you get to an arbitrary number of uses, you can no longer use them, independently of the device state.
- CamperBob2 4y agoThat's very different from intentionally adding an undisclosed 'retirement date' to the firmware.
- skyyler 4y agoDesigning around potential failures is almost the opposite of what Epson did here...