• shartgargle@lemmy.zip
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    5 hours ago

    So you’re saying they just need to scoot back their planned obsolescence a bit to align with western stuff.

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      1 hour ago

      I’m running a 10 year old ‘western stuff’ PC and I don’t run into any issues.

      Planned obsolescence exists in single-manufacturer products (smartphones, white-goods), even moreso in vertically-integrated businesses (Apple, Samsung).

      It doesn’t work at all in the PC industry where component suppliers compete for market dominance, because if their company puts out a shitty product that fails more rapidly than a competitor, they lose sales and brand reputation in a crowded market.