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No it's doesn't work "fine". One of the failings is the artificial information asymmetry imposed by the companies' constant churn of products. By the time we ge

No it's doesn't work "fine". One of the failings is the artificial information asymmetry imposed by the companies' constant churn of products. By the time we get some non-seo actual reviews of the model A1000, it's out of stock and you can only buy A1000b and A2000, both made from different components. The market can't work as intended under these circumstances, because there's no way for the consumer to make an informed decision. Consumers signal their preference for quality all the time. By buying the pricier stuff. But sometimes, somehow, there's no option anymore to buy X stuff - try buying a desktop CPU without Intel ME or AMD PSP for example. They just put it in every one of the CPUs at one point and that was that. People are not going to not buy newer CPUs.

christophilus 4y ago
It works in some areas and not in others. I buy iPhones because I get 10 years out of them. Same for MacBooks. We just need a kitchenware company that takes the quality mantle and seriously maintains it over the course of 40 years. I bet it’s a niche that would actually work if someone tried it. You just have to keep the MBAs out of the company somehow.
- valleyer 4y ago
  The newest iPhone you could have bought in 2012 was an iPhone 5, which was 32-bit and doesn't support anything newer than iOS 10. You'd basically not be able to run any apps from the last three or four years. (And apps from before then may stop working if they depend on servers that have been shut down, under the assumption that everyone who cares has updated.) I totally support your mission. I'm writing this on an 8-year-old Mac that I hope to eke out a full decade from. I just don't think iPhones (or Macs, really -- mine already can't run the newest OS, and its Safari can't display WebP images that are popping up increasingly across the Web) are a good example.

christophilus 4y ago

It works in some areas and not in others. I buy iPhones because I get 10 years out of them. Same for MacBooks. We just need a kitchenware company that takes the quality mantle and seriously maintains it over the course of 40 years. I bet it’s a niche that would actually work if someone tried it. You just have to keep the MBAs out of the company somehow.

valleyer 4y ago
The newest iPhone you could have bought in 2012 was an iPhone 5, which was 32-bit and doesn't support anything newer than iOS 10. You'd basically not be able to run any apps from the last three or four years. (And apps from before then may stop working if they depend on servers that have been shut down, under the assumption that everyone who cares has updated.) I totally support your mission. I'm writing this on an 8-year-old Mac that I hope to eke out a full decade from. I just don't think iPhones (or Macs, really -- mine already can't run the newest OS, and its Safari can't display WebP images that are popping up increasingly across the Web) are a good example.