Showerthought: my old phone bricking itself after an update made me rethink planned obsolescence

My phone from 2021 just stopped working completely after a system update last Tuesday, and I lost all my photos from a trip to Austin. I used to think the whole 'planned obsolescence' thing was just a paranoid theory, but now I'm not so sure. Has anyone else had a device fail right after a software push?

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pat_fisher2417d ago

It's the printer ink model, but for everything now.

kaih3617d ago

Disagree @pat_fisher24, feels more like planned failure is the new business plan.

hayden_lane17d ago

It's not planned failure, it's just making things break faster so you buy more.