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Hopefully a blow to planned obsolescence

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Commitment against planned obsolescence would be 20 years minimum.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Well, long before that the device would stop working. More important would be improved repairability. My current phone is in year 4 and the hardware is starting to die. But I can't replace the battery or other parts that start breaking. 20 year software support means nothing without that hardware lasting that long.

In that regard I think 7 years is already plenty. If they pair that with easy to replace batteries and screens that would go a long way.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Nah that doesn't make sense, but 7 years and open-sourcing drivers would cut it

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

20 years ago, no one owned a smart phone. And most people still didn't have cell phones or a laptop.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

20 years ago, no one owned a smart phone.

The handspring visor, one of the first smartphones, was released in 2000. I owned one, although a few years later and second hand.

It still works too, except the phone part is 1g only, so there's no network for it any more.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

OK, almost no one owned a smart phone.