mehrotra.akash
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Even now, if you are willing to pay the price, you wont have this problem..
Just for an example, an i3 based thinkpad with a 7 years warranty costs around Rs 80k, but a Dell with a 1 yr warranty costs 30k and looks better.
People will buy the dell and talk about it failing after 2 yrs.
Similarly you can get AC's now for much lower prices than in the past, but they will last say 10 yrs (like samsung) instead of the 20+ years like Panasonic.
Same thing happens with cell phones, the old S60v5 phones had a 3-5 year lifecycle, with 2+ days of battery life, but were killed with the introduction of Android phones with a 6month to 1yr lifecycle.
At the end of the day it is the market which decides what it wants, and cheap shiny stuff always wins
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this video was posted in a thread on reddit about printers.
printers today are made to last for only a couple of years.
that is planned obsolescence.
Only the cheap ones..
I had bought a HP 910 printer @ 4.5k in 2009.
It has printed 600+ pages on the default cartridges without any issues so far.
Yes, you will face problems if you go for the Rs 2k printers ,or cheap MFD's, but if you plan to keep them for more than an year or so, its always better to go for discrete devices somewhere in the middle of the priceband
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I have old Onida TV.. working from abt 18 years now.
Old fully automatic washing machine working from abt 15yrs.
Both costed good money but are value for money.
And now a days...TV and washing machine still cost almost the same but i doubt they will last more than 5-8 yrs.
Consider time value of money, if the absolute price is the same, then the current prices are much lower than the old prices
So is technology going forward or backward?
What makes you think it is going backward? having a camera in your phone? having a remote with your TV? having a TV that has a flat screen, thus reducing image distortion?
Actually human qualities of humans is going backward!
What does that even mean?
Just for an example, an i3 based thinkpad with a 7 years warranty costs around Rs 80k, but a Dell with a 1 yr warranty costs 30k and looks better.
People will buy the dell and talk about it failing after 2 yrs.
Similarly you can get AC's now for much lower prices than in the past, but they will last say 10 yrs (like samsung) instead of the 20+ years like Panasonic.
Same thing happens with cell phones, the old S60v5 phones had a 3-5 year lifecycle, with 2+ days of battery life, but were killed with the introduction of Android phones with a 6month to 1yr lifecycle.
At the end of the day it is the market which decides what it wants, and cheap shiny stuff always wins
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this video was posted in a thread on reddit about printers.
printers today are made to last for only a couple of years.
that is planned obsolescence.
Only the cheap ones..
I had bought a HP 910 printer @ 4.5k in 2009.
It has printed 600+ pages on the default cartridges without any issues so far.
Yes, you will face problems if you go for the Rs 2k printers ,or cheap MFD's, but if you plan to keep them for more than an year or so, its always better to go for discrete devices somewhere in the middle of the priceband
----------
I have old Onida TV.. working from abt 18 years now.
Old fully automatic washing machine working from abt 15yrs.
Both costed good money but are value for money.
And now a days...TV and washing machine still cost almost the same but i doubt they will last more than 5-8 yrs.
Consider time value of money, if the absolute price is the same, then the current prices are much lower than the old prices
So is technology going forward or backward?
What makes you think it is going backward? having a camera in your phone? having a remote with your TV? having a TV that has a flat screen, thus reducing image distortion?
Actually human qualities of humans is going backward!
What does that even mean?
mattresses comes with 10-20 years guarantee 
