> They are designed to die just slightly past the warranty, so they can sell you another.
Not quite. They're designed to last at least as long as the warranty so that they don't lose money on returns. At least based on my experience in Dyson.
They don't deliberate sabotage anything like some people seem to think. Like there's no 5 year clock that is programmed to break so you have to buy another. If some part is cheap and lasts 20 years they aren't going to deliberately weaken it just so it breaks after 5 years.
What actually happens is they reduce the cost of expensive parts as much as possible (to save money) subject to the constraint that it can't fail within the warranty.
Part of the reason why early versions of products are often more reliable than later ones - they haven't sold very many so there's no financial incentive yet to do extensive cost-down optimisation (and they haven't had time).
It's still not great IMO but it's not outright evil. Your average Redditor thinks there are lightbulb conspiracies around every corner and that's just untrue.
the greatest trick dyson did was to turn vacuum an almost whiteware category item lasting 10-20yrs into 5yrs cycle product... so in that regard even if it lasted 10yrs by accident they're still well within tolerable profit margin over customer's life time projection
also it sucks well which does help
apple watch is of similar trajectory kudos to these two products
Not quite. They're designed to last at least as long as the warranty so that they don't lose money on returns. At least based on my experience in Dyson.
They don't deliberate sabotage anything like some people seem to think. Like there's no 5 year clock that is programmed to break so you have to buy another. If some part is cheap and lasts 20 years they aren't going to deliberately weaken it just so it breaks after 5 years.
What actually happens is they reduce the cost of expensive parts as much as possible (to save money) subject to the constraint that it can't fail within the warranty.
Part of the reason why early versions of products are often more reliable than later ones - they haven't sold very many so there's no financial incentive yet to do extensive cost-down optimisation (and they haven't had time).
It's still not great IMO but it's not outright evil. Your average Redditor thinks there are lightbulb conspiracies around every corner and that's just untrue.