It’s the same idea as the car industry. They don’t expect you to buy the latest model every single year. They’re hoping that whenever you do choose to upgrade the new one had enough new features that you’ll choose it instead of going over to a competitor.
That’s comparing apples to oranges. Apple has been caught doing planned obsolescence multiple times. And many other tech companies as well. I’m proposing more regulations to ensure that none essential products have longer service life and replacements are a substantial jump in performance and quality to justify the raw materials being used. Also with the rapid conglomeration of companies the allusion of choice is worrying. Also slowing down the releases would allow more equitable distribution of money and resources. Just look up the numbers behind electronic waste alone. Yes in the perfect world people would only get a new device when needed. But that’s not reality. I’m not talking about a communist utopia or anything but the question is should humanity be trowing so much resources and energy behind millions of new iphones every year? These are serious decisions we need to have because the alternative is literally the destruction of the human race as we know it. Apple makes a new phone every year because imaginary line on graph must go up. But should we measure a company’s success that way? The environment, the poor people that mine the resources, and assemble the phones say no.
It’s the same idea as the car industry. They don’t expect you to buy the latest model every single year. They’re hoping that whenever you do choose to upgrade the new one had enough new features that you’ll choose it instead of going over to a competitor.
That’s comparing apples to oranges. Apple has been caught doing planned obsolescence multiple times. And many other tech companies as well. I’m proposing more regulations to ensure that none essential products have longer service life and replacements are a substantial jump in performance and quality to justify the raw materials being used. Also with the rapid conglomeration of companies the allusion of choice is worrying. Also slowing down the releases would allow more equitable distribution of money and resources. Just look up the numbers behind electronic waste alone. Yes in the perfect world people would only get a new device when needed. But that’s not reality. I’m not talking about a communist utopia or anything but the question is should humanity be trowing so much resources and energy behind millions of new iphones every year? These are serious decisions we need to have because the alternative is literally the destruction of the human race as we know it. Apple makes a new phone every year because imaginary line on graph must go up. But should we measure a company’s success that way? The environment, the poor people that mine the resources, and assemble the phones say no.