[AraceliHarker]

One of the reasons why Microsoft and OEMs are promoting TPM is to encourage planned obsolescence, so that users will replace their PCs as often as they replace their smartphones, right?

"(Lenovo) said people buy new smartphones every other year but became accustomed used to buying new PCs every six or seven years. The industry needs to do better at motivating people to buy new devices"

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/05/microsofts-panos-panay-expla...

[Gigachad]

Tbh I'd expect the trend of upgrading phones to start to slow down as well as they become "good enough" but there are still pretty big gains being made in cameras.

Laptops are just good enough now. If you took the 3 year old M1 internals, and stuck them in the new case and told me it was the 2024 model, I'd not notice anything was off.

[barbariangrunge]

Phones are locked down. All you need is a vendor to refuse further software updates after 5 years, after releasing a more resource-draining updates prior to this, and it doesn’t matter how good the old hardware is. People won’t be able to use it

[toastal]

A capitalist economy predicated on infinite growth necessarily needs planned obsolescence to artificially churn consumption to increase growth (with new devices costing more). With public-traded companies bound to make profits for shareholders, this is no surprise.

[api]

Push local LLMs and generative AI then. That’ll require people to upgrade old machines.