Ask HN: What if planned obsolescence was made illegal?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43821752

by vjulian • 1 year ago

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mattl• 1 year ago

Companies would find a way to make sure it was done in a way that avoided breaking anything

rolph• 1 year ago

google just changes web standards,,, for the entire web, then its time to upgrade to fit the standards

duxup• 1 year ago

Obsolescence happens pretty fast naturally too, I’m not sure how you craft a legal standard that would make much of an impact.

muzani• 1 year ago

How do we detect it? Most of it looks like entropy. You can justify that the phone is unrepairable because it was necessary to pack everything tightly to make it thin. Once there's a way to measure it, we can discuss what if.

scarface_74• 1 year ago

Do you make companies support hardware forever?

In the case of phones, do we force carriers to never deprecate old standards?

Ask HN: What if planned obsolescence was made illegal?

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