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Originally Posted by mpeg2
This may not be solely due to corporate planning. It seems that we've had a part in this too - with the primary trend in deciding what to buy based primarily on lowest price. If we put emphasis on price rather than longevity in our purchase selections, then companies will engineer the price point of their products downwards to remain competitive. The primary way to do this is in less expensive components that simply don't last as long.
Rich
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And we've gotten spoiled for new gadgets every yr or so. And some of it is the fact that the new has to be brought out eventually as a finished product. Before you even get that new computer out of the store, much less out of the box there is already going to be a new computer that does the same job faster being designed if not shipped out to a warehouse in time for the next time for the 'new' computers to be delivered to the stores. Back when typewriters were still the big thing they had the same time delays. By time the typewriters were in the stores their platens (the round cylinder that the paper is held against while you type) was already getting hard because rubber hardens over time. So the 1st thing you had to do with the new typewriter was to take it in to have it treated with Fedron (I think I spelled it right but it's been a while since college) to soften up the rubber on the platen again.