Manufacturers should design electronics to last – not for the dump. http://storyofstuff.org/movies/story-of-electronics/ (Video from 2011, still just as relevant now.)
Tag: repair
426,000 discarded mobile devices a day in the United States.
Transformation of physical features of the technology to signify newness has become a standard practice in generating consumer interest and buying power.
In most complex systems, software lifecycle costs (redesign, rehosting and re-qualification) contribute as much or more to the total lifecycle costs as the hardware, and the hardware and software must be concurrently sustained.