[quote=spdrun]Exactly. Which is why the best environmental policy is to make electronics and vehicles that LAST a long time. Recycling them or building new ones is environmentally expensive.
Apple is talking out of their anuses about environmental responsibility, when they deliberately make older app versions for 3-4 year old iPads hard to download.[/quote]
Yes!!!! A quadrillion times yes!!!
Dealing with a dishwasher right now that barely scraped by until the warranty period expired. It will cost almost as much to fix it (with a high likelihood of it breaking down again) as it will to replace it. Talk to any of the appliance salespeople about trying to find the most durable appliance — usually with mechanical controls — and they say with pride: “Honey, these aren’t the kind of dishwashers you grew up with. They don’t last 20-30 years anymore. They last about 7 years now, which is good because technology makes them greener with each new generation.”
Not kidding, they actually say that…like it’s a good thing. 🙁
There is nothing on the planet that is “dirtier” than planned obsolescence.
