Why technology devices don’t last forever
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Forgetting user wear and tear, money.
Most tech can probably last a humans lifetime, maybe not batteries, but they’re replaceable.
It’s just not good business sense.
For example, look at:
– lightbulbs
– tights
– iOS batteries
– fast fashion cheap brands
All have or have had equivalents of the same items but lasting much longer. It’s just bad for business because people will buy less. If you have amazing grade quality products, you just won’t sell as much. Even if people tell you they will.
If you make passable quality at affordable prices however, people will spend all the time because they’ll need it, it’s cheap, and most expensive stuff isn’t much better.
In terms of raw processing, we want our technology to do more and more.
A single tech device will continue to work for as long as you need it for the most part.
It’ll only slow down if you update it, store a bunch of stuff on it, and/or damage the components (not likely).
The modern day cell phone of this year is more powerful than many desktop PCs from 10-15 years ago.
Apps used to be 0-20Mb. Now they are 100+ mb to download.
So they don’t last forever because they can’t keep up with their intended purpose forever. Tech moves fast. Replaceable parts are not a thing.
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Assuming you take care of them, most devices will continue to operate for decades and decades. And if you want to keep doing the same things with them, then they’ll be fine. But you’re not doing the same things with them.
The internet is more demanding than it was 10 years ago, or 20 years ago. Video games are more demanding. You try running Tears of a Kingdom on a NES. It wouldn’t even be able to display a screenshot of the game at anything like acceptable quality.
So yeah, if you just sit and play the same games forever, or just run Microsoft Word, sure, it’ll last basically forever. But really anything NEW, whether that be newer web pages, newer games, higher quality video, whatever, is gonna require more computing power. Eventually your device simply can’t keep up.
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