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radiolistener:
Repair of ROHC electronics is a bad dream. It's better to buy something new...  :)
There are two things that is used for planned obsolescence:
1) low quality electrolyte capacitors
2) lead free soldering

Actually all these things that have green color logo are doing business which is very harmful to the environment.

For example, these fluorescent light bulbs which are advertised as energy savings and save environment with green logo, actually contains mercury. The same thing with these ROHS, which is designed for cheap low quality electronics intended for short period of usage. After that it will turns into trash and pollutes the environment with harmful substances.
tooki:
Ugh... no, dude.

Designing down to a price is NOT planned obsolescence. Nobody is out there saying "we need to choose things that definitely won't last longer than 3 years" or whatever. They do, however, say "we need this thing cheap, and it only needs to last 3 years, so we don't need more expensive parts that last longer", which is designing down to a price.

Nobody wanted the crappy caps. They often failed while the devices were still under warranty, which cost companies millions to fix. (Not to mention that it's really bad for reputation.)


So yeah, take off the tinfoil hat. There's no conspiracy to design things to fail prematurely.

P.S. I didn't say modern devices were easy to repair. They're not. But they are actually quite reliable.
radiolistener:
dude, there is no tin foil hat. They just doing it to get more money. But this is very bad for buyers and for environment, because all these cheap trash will pollute environment with harmful garbage. And the goal of this business is to produce much more trash and get more money for that, instead of production good quality and long use things which will save environment and make peoples more happy.
tooki:
It's absolutely a tinfoil hat.

What's the point in designing a cellphone to last for 10 years and be super-durable, when a) that'll make it so thick nobody will buy it anyway, and b) consumers replace their phones after ~2.5y on average anyway? (The vast majority of phones are replaced long before they fail.) Same with computers. It's not planned obsolescence, it's just plain ordinary obsolescence. The only way to stop that would be to stop progress.

And besides, the markets have spoken: most consumers don't want quality. They want cheap. And so that's what manufacturers make, because that's what sells.
radiolistener:

--- Quote from: tooki on June 03, 2019, 11:35:31 am ---What's the point in designing a cellphone to last for 10 years and be super-durable

--- End quote ---

The point to design such cellphones is to save environment. It will not turns into trash after 1-2 years, so you can continue to use it or just sell it and buy something new if you don't like to use the same thing for a long time. But such cellphones will not give much money for manufacturers. And this is why they design cellphone which will fails after 1-2 years and repair will be impossible.
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