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I wonder if the "designed to fail" trend will get worse or reverse in the coming years?
by pmichaud 17y ago
I wonder if the "designed to fail" trend will get worse or reverse in the coming years?
- jacquesm 17y agoI hope - possibly against hope - that there will be some major shift around the corner, away from computing the way we do it today. There are plenty of contenders, a large number of which have passed the HN frontpage in the last couple of weeks. So, I hope it will reverse, but I fear that it will get worse first...
- Tangurena 17y agoNo, And my reason is because of the switch to lead-free solders. Lead-free solders aren't anywhere near as reliable as lead-based solders. Marketing folks claim they are. Reliability engineers can demonstrate that they aren't.
- Herring 17y agoI personally hope other things (eg price, increased performance) continue to be more important.
- ubernostrum 17y agoI have a ThinkPad which, judging from its survival so far, may still be around in a decade or two. Those things are built to last.