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Why do older analog appliances (like basic fans or clocks) seem to last decades, while modern "smart" equivalents break down in just a few years and are impossible to repair?
Is this purely down to planned obsolescence, or is it because adding proprietary digital microchips and locked firmware updates introduces multiple points of technical failure to items that used to be strictly mechanical and easily fixable? I’m genuinely curious about the manufacturing shift here.
u/Kazuland_Math026 — 4 days ago