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by makeitdouble 1108 days ago
> automotive, bicycle

They're supposed to have recurring maintenance fees. One might do the maintenance themselve, but a significant part of the user base will ask a shop to do it, probably the dealer where they bought it.

> furniture, kitchen appliances, other home appliances

On the higher end it survives by charging years worth of purchase. Like a 4000 bucks oak dining table. Kitchen appliance also either cost an arm and a leg or won't last for 10 years (including buying replacement for the perishable parts)

The lower end is the market IKEA dominates.

> television

They exactly saw this problem front and center and started pivoting to selling viewing data and pushing ads, getting "smart"

> computers

That's exactly why companies (the biggest cmputer purchasers) are led to leases instead of purchases, and those renew every 3 years. On the user side cheaper computers are also the mainstream, and people don't expect those to last 10 years.