[theelous3]

There was a point about planned obsolescence?

All I saw was one point where the author claimed his old cameras and phones were planned to be obsolete, which is stupid.

By that standard, the only camera we could ever make is whatever camera humans in the distant future consider the last (sturdy) camera.

We design physical devices to last long enough to see you in to the time we'd expect them to actually be obsolete.

Do you really think it would be a good idea to make everything super long lasting?

Imagine a world where we took this seriously. We'd have precision machined laptop cases made out of advanced alloys, wrapping ruggedised 66mhz intel pentiums from 1993. Still working, but effectively a massive waste of resources.

The better approach is to make the materials reclaimable.