[Boatanchors] Why modern gadgets vacuum your wallet when...

[Mark K3MSB]

Rob

Having to buy a computer every 8 or 9 years to keep up with the web has
little to do with the inability to troubleshoot and repair modern gadgets
because they were intentionally made to be hard to repair.  It’s not a
question of repair.    Your having to buy a new computer (PC) every 8 or 9
years is because technology moves on;   You can’t produce a computer in
2017 that will be up to the task in 2026 for two reasons;  first we have no
idea of the technologies that will be used in 2026.  Second, if we even
tried to build a computer that would address such technologies it would be
so expensive you’d complain about the cost!

Technology is rapidly changing,  and it will NEVER be changing so slowly as
it is right now.   Your wanting to buy a computer today that will work in 8
to 9 years as well as it does today is simply unrealistic

Mark K3MSB

On Nov 2, 2017 12:06 PM, "Rob Atkinson" <ranchorobbo at gmail.com> wrote:

> It's fine for me if a manufacturer wants to introduce say, a new model
> automobile every year and if some folks are suckers and pee away their
> money on a new car every 3 years or so that's their business and I can
> and do "opt out" of that game.  What's changed now is that with
> software, consumers are being forced to buy new in ever shortening
> cycles whether they want to or not.  Right now it's mostly with IT
> stuff, but I see this forced purchase method via software gradually
> getting into more products.  It already chaps my ass that I have to
> buy a new computer every 8 or 9 years in order to keep using resources
> like eBay etc.  You may someday quit seeing me on the Internet because
> I'll just refuse to keep junking perfectly good computers to stay
> on-line.
>
> 73
>
> Rob
> K5UJ
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