Big tech has made many products so inexpensive that it's cheaper to buy a new one than spend the labor costs to repair a broken one (how many people will spend $150 to repair a $200 printer?).  And unlike the American car manufacturers who invented planned obsolescence by making sure their products degraded right after the warrantee expired, high tech products become obsolete because advances occur so quickly.  Customers should certainly be able to replace their batteries and screens with aftermarket products, but in general the productive life of anything with a chip in it is about 3 years unless one is happy to live with an old operating system (like my mother, who uses a 10 year old iPhone but never texts, orders or TikToks :-))

Big tech has made many products so inexpensive that it's cheaper to buy a new one than spend the labor costs to repair a broken one (how many people will spend $150 to repair a $200 printer?).  And unlike the American car manufacturers who invented planned obsolescence by making sure their products degraded right after the warrantee expired, high tech products become obsolete because advances occur so quickly.  Customers should certainly be able to replace their batteries and screens with aftermarket products, but in general the productive life of anything with a chip in it is about 3 years unless one is happy to live with an old operating system (like my mother, who uses a 10 year old iPhone but never texts, orders or TikToks :-))

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