older technology: "we've had this radio in our family for 70 years, it has some hiccups sometimes but you just have to smack it on the side a bit and it works like a charm"
technology now: "oh nyos i'm such an old phone, uuu you've been using me for a year and a half oh noooo i'm basically crumbling to dust, please put me out of my misery uuuuu 💢😫"
just had to order a new part for my shaving machine bc i cannot open the part that isn't working anymore to clean it/figure out what's wrong. i am already glad that some 2nd party website is selling parts on its own instead of me having to buy an entire new machine bc i can't use part of it anymore, but i am so frustrated with not being able to just clean/fix my part properly!!! give me screws to unscrew shit so i can fix your product!!!!!!!
Nothing quite like having to drop half a grand on a laptop with no warning, because your old one died after a mere 6 years. I hate planned obsolescence so fricking much.
Tangled headphone wires were not a problem that needed to be solved for the good of mankind, but an opportunity to replace a fiercely compet
Sorry to go on a rant about capitalism, but, yeah. This.
Like, it’s ironic because I found that article through Apple News and I’m typing this on an Apple product, but. This type of thing is genuinely upsetting.
We live in an age where kids have to go on climate strikes, and governments ban plastic straws despite their importance to people with certain disabilities, but corporations consider it perfectly acceptable to make people buy electronics that will degrade in less than two years, are easily lost, and are terrible for the earth. Planned obsolence is absolutely the worst, and very much geared towards people who can afford to replace things every two years, or five, or ten.
Calling the tax agency to sort out a few details but oops turns out they can't discuss my case because I can't identify myself because my phone is too old for the mobile ID app and there's literally no other way to do it unless I physically visit their office (which I thought barely existed anymore since they want us to do everything online).