is a good choice whenever possible. Sometimes it's not by very different reasons: personal service, parts, etc. When faced with the failure or malfunction of an apparatus of the many, increasingly, that flood our lives, the question always arises: fix? "Buy a new more modern and more likely?.
few days ago saw a television news article "Buy, pull, buy" . I have already received several e-mail attaching the link to it, is circulating on the Internet. I do not know how long it will be posted on the website of English Radio and Television. What I I downloaded to view on television and quietly approaching the hour and is very interesting, in my opinion, and the computer screen is tiring to follow. The link is this
http://www.rtve.es/mediateca/videos/20110109/comprar-tirar-comprar/983391.shtml
The bottom line is something called "scheduled or planned obsolescence "Reviewing
appliances use and daily functioning that I have in my house, the refrigerator takes the cake, with almost twenty years providing service satisfaction. It is true that you have a minor part is no longer theirs, as the door handles, as was long since discontinued the company that makes it. In fact, the last time I went to a service attempts to purchase the rubber of the freezer door, I not only reported the fact that their service is discontinued but the employee was very surprised that he was still operating without depth repair. Well it works, and well and hopefully keep doing it for years even with no internet connection to make requests to the supermarket alone. But I'm clear that the day I give the slightest problem in any fundamental issue is the time to consider and address outdated to the store to buy a new one. If you could buy the same brand and same model, as this would think that would be another twenty years of operation at least smoothly.
But as you can see in the story, things do not go there. I have no doubt that with current technology, companies could produce quasi-eternal devices, soon to establish a maintenance program that involved the review, lubrication and periodic replacement of parts that wear with use. This would also apply to cars. But I repeat that it should want. My aunts, octogenarians, are in good use and operation a Mercedes that belonged to his father and registered back in 1960. In fairness I must say that it maintains and manages a mechanic who also put a lot of wisdom and love in the matter, is an artist. This is also the obsolescence and country but tell that to the Cubans who keep their vehicles based on manufactured parts themselves.
But to get involved, what catches my attention and sharpens my senses is that of "scheduled or planned." The current global economy is based on consumption, and not just in commodities such as food or clothing, that if we see a monthly decrease their share in overall spending a house a few years ago the cornerstone of a family spending was on food and then clothes. Now things have changed and we spend more on a regular basis in telephone, automobile, vacation, information, etc. etc. A few years ago, the computer screen, brand new flat from the first that came out, and that had cost me my good euros, went off suddenly. I looked at the invoice and was just two years and two months I had it. The security was thus clinched. Calling the service I got a thousand and one hit, just like in the story said, as if the shop was in Portugal, that he ran shipping and return my account, which would cost me more "to the greyhound collar, which had dropped in price and in short, that did not interest me repair, but shoot and buy a new thing I had to do at the end. I bought another brand but it sure was at that time someone did the same with interchangeable frames.
The question is whether some companies spend time and money in the research phase of new products for manufacture of such that after a time become inoperative. Ideally, ensure that customers were comfortable with the product for a sufficient time so that at the futility of this they decided to purchase one of the same brand. In any case, and since everything is global, what matters is "buy, shoot and buy," to move the wheel and that it continues forward until it is not known limits. What is clear is that if you were to be hell breaks loose.
other hand either to be honest, is not interested in certain products that work for a long time, since the advance of technology is going to make it out of bounds by the emergence of new models with better and higher performance. See the case of mobile phones, if not changed every year we'll be out of place.
cameras I have bought in the seventies to work perfectly. The bag and test once a year. Another thing is that not in use, as digital technology has left them obsolete, but not by feeding malfunction that makes me decide not to continue with film and released. Thing of the past but what we were using until recently and in fact still can still be used.
(For those who have interest, and we talked about very similar things for months in the last entry in April entitled "Spare Parts")
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