Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges

• onslaught545@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s just not true. It’s not so much planned obsolescence as it’s companies making appliances to fit a price point and using lower quality parts to do so.

  You can absolutely still buy appliances that will last decades, but they are expensive. 50 years ago you could absolutely buy a cheap washer that would need to be fixed frequently.

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Are you suggesting that planned obsolescence doesn’t exist?

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    • onslaught545@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I am suggesting that companies specifically designing products to fail at a specific point isn’t as prolific as people like to claim.

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    • FishFace@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      How about this (not OP): most things people attribute to planned obsolescence are not planned obsolescence.

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• SeeFerns@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yes sir

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