Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges
onslaught545@lemmy.zip 1 month agoThat’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.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Are you suggesting that planned obsolescence doesn’t exist?
FishFace@lemmy.world 1 month ago
How about this (not OP): most things people attribute to planned obsolescence are not planned obsolescence.
onslaught545@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I am suggesting that companies specifically designing products to fail at a specific point isn’t as prolific as people like to claim.
frongt@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Yeah. It’s not “how evilly can we design this to only last three years”, it’s “how cheaply can we design this to last only at least as long as it has to”. There’s a difference between making it fail and just not caring if it continues.
Like how the mars rovers had a design lifetime of like three years or whatever, and anything past that was just a bonus. NASA didn’t design them to fail after three years, they designed them to last at least three years at minimum.