32 pointsby arm2 hours ago3 comments

1970-01-0137 minutes ago
This is literally evidence of stuff being designed to fail. An extra diode costs less than a cent at production scale. This was a manufacturing choice, not an error.
- HPsquared11 minutes ago
  Don't underestimate the appeal of saving one cent per unit. So long as the costs are externalised, anyway...
- wat100004 minutes ago
  It’s not exactly designed to fail, they just don’t care. If they could add a one-cent part that made it fail sooner, they wouldn’t do that either.
- Atlas667a minute ago
  Capitalist profit motive strikes again. The invisible hand expands tech and the visible hand keeps making tech worse.
  People will respond to me by suggesting that it's an engineering blind spot and only coincidentally results in the companies benefit, when anyone who engineers knows stuff like this are often caused by revising design to minimize costs... and increase profits.
rbanffy2 hours ago
Very impressive engineering on the door switches. On the display, not so much.
bell-cot2 hours ago
168 points and 116 comments at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41480038