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I am surprised everyone disagrees with this, it's really common and the basis upon which a consumer society is based.

Clothes don't need to break, lightbulbs can be built that last forever, cars can and should run indefinitely when we can build aeroplanes that don't fall out of the sky and the performance of animations on an iOS device do not need to degrade substantially every OS release.

Apple release new versions of their OS to support the App Store (which make billions every year) not at all to increase the longevity of devices but to decrease them!!

I assume some of you think this is a paranoid conspiracy or something??





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