|
Regarding Batteries and the longevity of technology in general:
How great would it be if the overhead of development was low enough that tech. companies could offer lifetime warranties?
I haven't bought a backpack since I started high school fifteen years ago. Every time one breaks, I take it to Eddy Bauer and get a new one. If a fender on the boat pops, gets ripped by a rusty bolt, Taylor Made will ship me a new one.
Obviously, there is such a thin profit margin that SONY might go broke offering to replace Readers with cracked displays, non-responive buttons, dead batteries. However, imagine that there were only small improvements to the Reader, maybe search functionality in two years, a colour screen in five. Now imagine that every time you broke the Reader, they gave you a new one....
|