why do cheap Chinese electronics work perfectly at first, but quickly get broken afterwards?

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why do cheap Chinese electronics work perfectly at first, but quickly get broken afterwards?

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Many electronic components are sensitive to heat. If you want to embrace planned obsolescence,  it’s very easy to construct capacitors to die after a while.

Of course, you can also design them to last decades, but….where’s the profit in that?

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