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Ask HN: What if planned obsolescence was made illegal?

7vjulian3w ago

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mattl3w ago
Companies would find a way to make sure it was done in a way that avoided breaking anything
rolph3w ago
google just changes web standards,,, for the entire web, then its time to upgrade to fit the standards
duxup3w ago
Obsolescence happens pretty fast naturally too, I’m not sure how you craft a legal standard that would make much of an impact.
muzani3w ago
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.
scarface_743w ago
Do you make companies support hardware forever?

In the case of phones, do we force carriers to never deprecate old standards?