Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges

• FishFace@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• onslaught545@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨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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  • frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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