"They purposefully design technology to break after a few years, so that you have to buy more of it." [citation needed] Seriously - I'm not denying that an aw

"They purposefully design technology to break after a few years, so that you have to buy more of it." [citation needed] Seriously - I'm not denying that an awful lot of things break pretty quickly, but it seems far more likely that this is cost-cutting leading to questionable reliability, not outright "we're going to put a 1-day-after-warranty self-destruct in this toaster!". Besides, advertising to convince people that their not-broken thing needs to be replaced with NEW-SHINY-THING seems much more effective - and less likely to piss people off.