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Ask HN: What if planned obsolescence was made illegal?

7vjulian2w ago

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mattl2w ago
Companies would find a way to make sure it was done in a way that avoided breaking anything
rolph2w ago
google just changes web standards,,, for the entire web, then its time to upgrade to fit the standards
duxup2w ago
Obsolescence happens pretty fast naturally too, I’m not sure how you craft a legal standard that would make much of an impact.
muzani2w 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_742w ago
Do you make companies support hardware forever?

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