I’m sure this happens but with batteries the companies really are just desperately trying to get more capacity and life out of them. The chemistry just isn’t at all where they want to be.
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QuadratureSurfer@piefed.social 12 hours agoGranted, with all the planned obsolescence happening, you could also argue that engineers “knew” what they were doing.
RightEdofer@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
BlackLaZoR@fedia.io 12 hours ago
Planned obsolescence happens but it's not as common as most people think it is.
mark@programming.dev 11 hours ago
And probably not as intentional as most people think it is vs just laziness and maybe a lack of planning.
Zorque@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
So nothing planned obsolescence, then?
Ugurcan@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
It’s always bulbs or Apple. Bulbs industry switched into LED like 15 years ago, which has 20x lifespan than “durable” filaments; and iPhones average life is 6 years whereas competitors usually went to bin in 3 years.
golli@sopuli.xyz 10 hours ago
With iPhones i think it’s less about durability (and especially in the software department they were always great in terms of longevity), but more about repairability in case something does happen.
As far as lightbulbs go the issue with potential planned obsolescence doesn’t go way just because of the swap to LEDs. First there are a type of bulb even today that use some form of filament and second the part that gets damaged is usually some kind of capacitor or other electronic part that gets run with too much voltage and too hot. Don’t have time to watch it again, but i remember finding this video from a few years ago interesting.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 10 hours ago
its exactly as common as people think, when most people’s phones are lasting 3 years tops.