Personally, I like to buy assembled goods on sale from a manufacturer with a decent reputation, and then I DIY replace parts from the cheapest supplier I can fi

Personally, I like to buy assembled goods on sale from a manufacturer with a decent reputation, and then I DIY replace parts from the cheapest supplier I can find, since I'm typically out of warranty already anyways. I'll replace my laptop fan as soon as my cheap thermal grease comes in. After that, if I feel good about it, I'll upgrade the memory and hope to get another few years out of it. I liked the idea of telling consumers the expected life of a product. But they're actually not doing that. Instead, they're going to threaten people with jail time and companies with huge fines. https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.numerama.com%2Fmagazine%2F32252-le-delit-d-obsolescence-programmee-adopte-au-senat.html&edit-text= https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr... But when you're making a product, you plan its construction around its life-expectancy. You don't make a doohicky with a sprocket that lasts 30 years when the other parts of the doohicky will only last 3 years. Instead, you get the sprocket made more cheaply with a life expectancy of 3 years, and your savings helps you compete with other doohicky manufacturers for the business of consumers. It seems to me that France doesn't understand the economics of manufacturing. This seems to be another brain-dead decision by socialists that will cost jobs and raise the risks (and thus the costs) of doing business in the country. They'll have to pay those engineers and managers who make these design decisions even more to take on those risks. Marginal manufacturers will just get out, and jobs will be lost. Like they can afford it. http://www.france24.com/en/20150127-france-unemployment-hits-new-record-high-december/ http://www.france24.com/en/20150127-france-unemployment-hits...