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Thank you. We need to hold corporations accountable to make devices that continue to work and don't include planned obsolescence. When people buy into the psych
by culi 2mo ago
Thank you. We need to hold corporations accountable to make devices that continue to work and don't include planned obsolescence. When people buy into the psychology of needing to buy the newest version every year or even that "it's just time" to upgrade without any specific need for it, they undermine that
- steve_taylor 2mo agoSo we're going to ask them to not advance their operating systems and apps to take advantage of newer hardware?
- culi 2mo agoWhat?
- steve_taylor 2mo agoDevices get slower over time due to their operating systems becoming increasingly complex as they're updated. This increased complexity is due to the OS developers taking advantage of the newer models' improved hardware. This leaves owners of older models facing a decision between staying on the older OS version and retaining the current performance vs. updating to the latest version and risk performance degradation. But it's not even that simple. Over time, app developers stop targeting older OS versions, which means you could be stuck with old versions of apps, some of which will refuse to do anything until they're updated. The way to solve this is for device vendors and their OS developers to simply stop updating the OS in a way that takes advantage of new models' improved hardware because that same code slows down older devices.