some of y'all aren't gonna like hearing this but planned obsolescence as you think of it doesn't exist. there aren't any evil businessmen sitting in a boardroom somewhere twiddling their fingers as they calculate the exact date your phone is gonna stop working
there is no magic line of code that makes your current phone slow down when it gets a new update, it's a mix of confirmation bias and the shareholder demand for every new os version to have new features. cpus also just get worse over time as more of the transistors burn out from the obscene amounts of energy poured through them daily
if anything modern hardware and software is designed for a fuckton of graceful degradation - underclocking means your phone's battery and cpu will last longer and a lot of old smartphones (even dating back to the original iphone) still fucking work even if they can't use modern apps
the problem with smartphones isn't some evil conspiracy to force you to upgrade every year, it's a combination of the limitations of electronics, the second law of thermodynamics, and good old market pressures. grow up and let yourself accept that the world is more complex than you think.
You can accept that the monopolists are just looking out for your best interests, but there’s nothing wrong with acknowledging that there are other, more traditional, incentives that are factored into their decisions.
also apple did admit to throttling old phones? there sure was a line of code going from one ios release to another that slowed down the cpu of some phones.
i’m sure they have engineering reasons too for why their batteries are a nightmare to repair without an 80lbs proprietary tools kit or why they their hardware is DRM’d but i’m gonna guess those reasons were maybe a little influenced by the profit motive and a desire for easy annual sales.
I literally did acknowledge that there were other incentives that factored into their decisions though? What do you think market pressures are? I guess I can call them profit motives if you wanna nitpick phrasing.
You're also mixing up planned obsolescence and anti-repair - they've always been more than happy to fix up your old device for you...as long as you've got the money for it. There's still no menacing boardroom with evil scheming executives though, just an unwritten list of priorities for the designers with repairability below form factor.
I'd been interested in seen a source on the throttling bit if you've got one. Don't get me wrong, there are till a lot of business practices that go into modern tech, but it's a lot more complex than "we want to make the most malicious device possible" like a bunch of people I've run into seem to think.
You're also mixing up planned obsolescence and anti-repair
I am not "mixing up" anything: one is a consequent of the other. Repair prevention/repair lockdown is a way of monetizing rapidly obsoleting goods.. Enclosing the repairs gives you an extra incentive not to make your product durable.
I'd been interested in seen a source on the throttling bit if you've got one.
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