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Smartphone designs change slightly year to year, rendering accessories like cases unusable. Unlike clothing or furniture, most of these accessories have no sec
by blnlx 4mo ago
Smartphone designs change slightly year to year, rendering accessories like cases unusable.
Unlike clothing or furniture, most of these accessories have no secondary life.
Small design changes can have outsized material consequences.
I look at this pattern of lifecycle shortening more broadly here:
https://borisljevar.substack.com/p/the-climate-crisis-illusion-of-action?r=249qrt https://borisljevar.substack.com/p/the-climate-crisis-illusi...