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Originally Posted by Cthulhu
Wow.
tcv, I hope that you know you made me very, very sad. There are few things that I own, for which I paid $200+ that I do not expect to last for five years.
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I apologize. I don't want to make anyone sad. I am pointing out that companies don't make money by creating product that you'll never want to or have to replace. It just doesn't benefit them at all if the Reader can last decades. And each component in the device essentially falls under the same meditation -- "how can we get them to buy more of our stuff!"
No, I don't believe that companies purposely create tech that dies. I do believe, however, that they don't focus on creating tech that could easily last a very, very long time. And I do believe that if they really wanted to, they could make a Reader that lasted 10 years.