There are few things quite as emblematic of late stage capitalism than the concept of “planned obsolescence”.

  • CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    5 years is shit. People have been conditioned over the past 10-15 years to think that the mobile way of doing this is the correct way. Before that, your PC was an open system that you could upgrade and update until it was incapable of running the latest software due to hardware limitations (not enough RAM, GPU API level, processor extensions, etc). These days the mobile companies have convinced people that none of that matters. The software is so intrinsically tied to the hardware that even if the hardware is not much different to the new hardware, the new software won’t work.

    A 15 year old PC can still do a lot of work on a modern OS these days. Why can’t a 6 year old phone? Because the people who want you to buy a new phone said so.