If a thing works, it works. Then corporations realized that doesn’t work to keep growing like a cancer. Queue: Make the old thing bad (by enshittification) or pour billions into ads saying no, this NEW thing is what you need now!
If a thing works, it works. Then corporations realized that doesn’t work to keep growing like a cancer. Queue: Make the old thing bad (by enshittification) or pour billions into ads saying no, this NEW thing is what you need now!
Yea, having a 60 year old fridge might be cool, but their electricity demand isn’t.
A 15 year old computer probably doesn’t work for most things, even IF planned obsolence wasn’t a think. Heck, in my line of work, a 5 year old computer would be too slow.