>> "Half a century ago, makers of telephones, TVs and cars prospered by building products that their buyers knew (or at least believed) would last for many year

>> "Half a century ago, makers of telephones, TVs and cars prospered by building products that their buyers knew (or at least believed) would last for many years. No one sells a smartphone on that basis today; the new ideal is to render your own products obsolete as fast as possible." I enjoyed the article, but this paragraph doesn't exactly bolster his argument that technological advances have ground to a halt.