Why do electronic devices break so quickly these days?
and not only the cheapest ones, but also those from brands sometimes hold
not much longer!
So things like ear pods, USB sticks, USB hard drives,
memory cards, Android speakers, fairy lights, Bluetooth speakers
what's going on there?
(2 votes)
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In addition to higher profit for manufacturers, there are also other technical reasons.
In the past, equipment was much coarser. There was a multiple of the material of modern devices installed and things were irreversibly expensive, miserable and often almost unusable from today’s point of view.
In the past, an average family had to eat properly on a TV and that had to be saved for many months, even years! Nowadays, even a unemployed person can buy several TVs every month if he does not smoke.
Then the devices were completely different. Analogue circuits were subject to extreme manufacturing tolerances and had to be adjusted in a complicated manner. For this, wear can be compensated for very long. In a car you had to set every few thousand kilometers to carburetor and ignition into the workshop.
Today you want a device at the lowest possible price. You don’t want to starve for months just to afford it. And then it must be easy to use and you don’t want to put it back and forth into a workshop. Also, the complexity has increased extremely so that the probability that something is broken is much higher.
Environmentally friendly materials are also a factor. In the past, there was no problem to improve the durability of highly toxic substances. Lead-containing electronic components keep much longer. In aerospace, you can even pack extra lead into the components. Then keep them long and are very reliable. However, according to EU law, such a space ferry or a jumbo jet should not be sold to private consumers and should not be disposed of in the garbage can.
I think it’s hard to answer because it’s multi-layered.
On the one hand there is certainly still the planned obsolescence. The main thing is getting new quickly.
Then there is the greed of the corporations. Cheapest materials for maximum price.
Then there are consumers who rely exactly on this brand awareness and buy this “shot” at overpriced prices.
But then there are also consumers who care about sustainability, environmental protection, longevity and quality: mainly cheap.
No matter what: in both cases a little Chinese sits somewhere and keeps his belly laughing.
And then it can also be “just just” more improper use.
But all this can cause the feeling that everything is broken so quickly.
However, there are still the devices that last for 30 years or longer. The devices that can be repaired even after so long. But they are also more costly.
Unfortunately, expensive is not always good, but cheap is always cheap. And who buys cheap, buys more and more at the end.
The whole is called “planned obsolescence”. Today’s devices are no longer to last so that industry is running. A repair is also hardly provided and can only be accomplished with great time, if at all. Circuit diagrams for electronic devices Thus, even the talented hobby repairer is hardly possible to put on hand. The pathetic is a method. Today more than ever.
But in 1925, the service life was measured. The so-called “Phoebus cartel”, also an incandescent lamp cartel, had decided that incandescent lamps should have a maximum service life of 1000 hours. Good for sales.
The fact that things are different is demonstrated by an incandescent lamp in the fire station of the city of Livermore near San Francisco. It has been shining uninterrupted since 1901 and is never switched off. It is often quoted as an indication of the existence of the planned obsolescence in modern incandescent lamps.
Photo: Wiki
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I have replaced a total of 4 neon tubes with LED tubes. All four had broken thanks to God in the warranty period and were replaced free of charge. No 100 hours of life. And in the basement replaced 3 60-watt lamps. All have not reached a lifetime of 1000 hours less than 15,000 hours. I definitely put some money here.
Incandescent lamps are, by the way, least loaded…! Switching on is the most fatal – in this case voltage peaks of the 4-fold height of the rated voltage occur during operation. Therefore it also likes to turn on “Peng”. The least are broken during operation.
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Improper use on your part
certainly not, I go very carefully with
such things around
Certainly… Ear Pods and Bluetooth Box operate in continuous rain and portable disks expose shocks, is not proper use
I’m not a teen anymore, I grow up and go cautiously