What if planned obsolescence was made illegal?

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mattl · Accepted Answer

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

muzani · Answer

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.

duxup · Answer

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

scarface_74 · Answer

Do you make companies support hardware forever?In the case of phones, do we force carriers to never deprecate old standards?

What if planned obsolescence was made illegal?

What if planned obsolescence was made illegal?

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

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.

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

Do you make companies support hardware forever?
In the case of phones, do we force carriers to never deprecate old standards?