I’ve been trying to take gym stuff more seriously lately and sometimes something like a fitbit seems like a great idea, are there any that don’t just harvest you for minimal utility on your end?
Sorry if this has be answered before but I think searching is still weird
How in the world do you figure Apple hasn’t earned their reputation for planned obsolescence when they serialize every part in the device, don’t allow for 3rd party repairs, constantly refuse to repair devices, constantly make them harder to repair, don’t make absolutely any repair documentation available, sue the people who find said documentation and make it available, and send ICE to raid businesses who are able to actually get their hands on replacement parts?
Blinders are a powerful thing unfortunately.
Personally I wouldn’t describe being against right to repair as the same thing as planned obsolescence. It’s a bad behaviour, but a different category of bad.
Planned obsolescence is more things like failing to provide support (software updates—since hardware repairs or replacement type support are legally mandated in civilised countries, so that doesn’t enter the equation) for the reasonable lifetime of the device—which in a smartphone is probably 3–5 years, or in the extreme case designing things to fail after a certain time.
The example a lot of people point to with Apple is the throttling that came out around 2017. But I don’t agree that it’s fair to characterise that as an example of planned obsolescence because in fact, it was something they did to extend the life of the device. Giving users the ability to make a fully informed choice for themselves would be much better, but taking action that they think will have a minimal impact on moment-to-moment UX while extending battery life could hardly be described as planned obsolescence.
And fwiw, I’m writing this from my Android phone. I’m not in the Apple ecosystem myself.
I would. And I do.