Google Stadia Controller Tear-Down & Disassembly Nightmare

[station240]

Insane what they had to do to get this open, due to using massive plastic clips that cannot be released.
Console controllers break after a certain time, wear and tear on the analogue sticks, dirt, liquids, dead batteries etc, all google have done is make a device no one will be able to use at some point in the future.

[Yansi]

Classic modern design for the sheep herds:

Using the cheapest plastic of them all in huge quantity. Make sure you did everything in the design so it can't be serviced, so you can sell more (and dump more into the landfill). Make sure they are even difficult to recycle, so that recyclers hate you too. Make sure you use a cheapest crap battery pack, well sealed inside so there's no way of replacing it. Use the cheapest switches and controls, so they can wear out soon.

etc...   Not surprising to find this stuff. But quite worrying too, that manufacturers still can get away with this unpunished, in a time where we push ecology to the extreme. (Unfortunately, not in the correct places).

[Black Phoenix]

That's something I can't understand. I understand they want a rigidity in the controller, is something that is used, pressed, throw away to a wall, falls on the floor, so I understand the plastic clips but still, Look at a Fluke, any Fluke:



A plastic case, with a ridge on the outside of one of the covers that slots on the other cover with screws.

No plastic clips, and it's a robust, no flex equipment that can be badly threaten without any sign of breakage. How hard is for Google to develop the controller in the same way? Same robustest to handling but at the same time easy to disassembly in case of needing a fixing.

In the current place, is one more thing that will die, when the battery dies, when the contacts wear out, and it's throw into a landfill, since by trying to open it will damage it for sure, and be throw in the landfill anyway.

[magic]

How hard is for Google to develop the controller in the same way?

Probably as hard as actually caring (and knowing what to care about in the first place) instead of going for the lowest bidder OEM. I bet it was designed by somebody else for them and the decision to buy this design was made by a mix of marketroids and software nerds who have never held a screwdriver in their hand