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> but to the dismay of OEMs the cycle is gone

Don't worry, they won't give up without a fight. I bet they'll try to push some artificial reasons for people to keep throwing away perfectly good machines every two years.




"Artificial" reasons instead of ... what? "Natural" reasons?


Yes, more-less. Things people invent to extract more money out of their customers, or keep afloat a business model that is visibly incompatible with reality - like planned obsolescence on lightbulbs and fridges, or DRMs.


Maybe they can put some really fragile components in a computer people carry around? Have them be really shiny and look great to help marketing too.


And then maybe they could make it impossible to repair the broken part for less than a third of a new device. "Tight integration streamlines the production, makes everything cheaper", they could say.


Like rewriting everything as a web app?




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