I think that AT&T used to replace phones that did not work. Durability made good sense then.
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Charlie <[email protected]> wrote: > Jim Devine wrote: > > > AT&T made them durable. Nowadays, our phones are built to be recycled > quickly under the assumption that we'll buy a new one soon. The cell > phone companies' planning horizon is only long for marketing. The > prevailing crap about raising profits every quarter -- and screw > long-term planning -- seems a product of the competitive capitalism of > recent memory. > < > > After decades, the capacity and speed of semiconductors still increase > so quickly that it would be a waste to make products durable beyond the > technological life of the chips inside them. > > However, Silicon Valley never drove the creation of tens of millions of > industrial jobs, exactly the opposite of Detroit (the vehicle complex) > of roughly 1910-1940. Even the assembly jobs for electronics products in > China exist only because of their extremely low wages. Foxconn itself > claims it will install a million robots in the next three years. > > Charles Andrews > No Rich, No Poor > http://www.amazon.com/NO-RICH-POOR-CHARLES-ANDREWS/dp/096799053X/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
