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You mean it's market demand and manufacturers are competing on price to maximize sales and not some conspiracy about planned obsolescence and "things were bette
by stevehawk 4y ago
You mean it's market demand and manufacturers are competing on price to maximize sales and not some conspiracy about planned obsolescence and "things were better in my day!"?
i refuse to believe such a logical argument
- juve1996 4y agoThings that break lead to greater sales. How do you deal with this? If they're competing on sales, then they need to optimize for the point at which it can break without losing brand confidence.
- xxs 4y agoI'd give an example with a printer. Refillable Ink-jet - a very low cost per page, indeed. After some time (approx 2y - warranty time in the EU; 5-6k pages/year), it started having an issue feeding paper, press the button to retry, it may work - frustrating, I know. 'Till one day it stopped altogether. It took me some time to figure it out - in short the tension springs were anemic to a high extent. So no tension on the paper rolls - no feed. Replacing the springs with imported ones (around 5-6 times more tension force) has made the printer not skip a page. The original springs like 1 cent together. The replacement cost was like 40cent for 10 - retail. There is no way the manufacturer was unaware.