[rcoilliot]

I’m also a tech enthusiast but I change my iPhone every 4 or 5 years. And it may be the issue here, there’s not that much incentive to switch from an iPhone to the next one except if you are an Apple fan boy, thanks to the awesome upgrades support. Hope they won’t “fix” it.

[pojzon]

If Apple didnt artifically „break” phones with software downgrades - that phone with replaced battery could work perfectly fine for 10+ years.

To tackle climate issues we have to enforce an improvement to quality of produced goods.

Remember those old German cars that were easy to maintain and could do 1 000 000 miles without major maintenances?

Capitalism and consumption enforced on ppl (greed) destroys this world.

[avgDev]

Wait what?

Cars reliability has greatly improved over the years, the tolerances got smaller as the manufacturing process got better.

Literally any car today can make it over 100k miles.

As a nerd I prefer to work on cars today, you plugin a scanner, run diagnostics and it literally tells you what is wrong with the car.

The 1 million miles cars were not trouble free, they were kept running by people committed to replacing everything but the body of the car.

[pojzon]

Not true. Almost every produced Volvo 900 did get to 200k or so without much maintenance - only oil and breaks/lightbulbs.

It was not uncommon for them to do 500k miles without major maintenance.

Now do that with any direct gasoline injection cars enforced by stupid emission laws.

Those car engines are designed to do max 150k and die and you can do nothing about it, no way to fix it.

And talk to any cars enthusiast about wiring issues, one wire broken in the car computer ? Well you better buy a new car coz noone will ever ever find it :)

Ive been fixing cars as a hobby for 20 years, the quality of cars went downhill super hard and new laws only make it worse by increasing pollution not decreasing it.

[dehrmann]

> perfectly fine for 10+ years

Carriers will want you on the new wireless standard before then.