[simion314]

I know that most people change their phones often but there are products that are expensive like washing machine, gas heaters that should be designed from the start to last 5 years or more. If 2 companies build washing machines and they need to increase the warranty time, the one that can do that with less price increase would sell more, the one that planned them to break down faster would lose and have to make a new dessign.

[runeks]

Why don't you just pay for the 5 year warranty if you want it, instead of wanting to make it mandatory that everyone pay?

[ksk]

The warranty doesn't make the product durable. Its just allows you to re-buy the same non-durable product using resources from a shared pool.

This is about addressing the fundamental problem.

[simion314]

Would you buy a car if the seller gives 1 month warranty? My opinion is that expensive products should have longer warranty by default. For cheaper products current 2 years is fine.