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.
Sounds a lot like printers and their ink cartridges.
also it sucks well which does help
apple watch is of similar trajectory kudos to these two products
He drove in such a way as to make sure it didn't work before the warranty was up, and then they fixed it.
Or more likely, they set the warranty period to be just below the MTBF
This I assume is also why amazon.de won't let you access invoices a while after purchase without talking to a CSR.
The EU directive on this says that all products sold here should be free of manufacturing defects within the first 24 months(it's 6 years for most products actually). But the key word here is manufacturing defect. Furthermore, the law clearly states that any fault found within the first 6 months is presumed to have been a manufacturing defect, anything found afterwards it's up to the consumer to prove that it was a manufacturing defect and not a fault that developed later.
As you can see, that's not the same as unconditional 24-month warranty - if your laptop dies 23 months in, good luck proving that it died because of a manufacting defect without hiring an expert to do so. Yes some places will repair it anyway to avoid the hassle, but it's not codified in the law.
On the bright side, EU(and UK) make the seller responsible for the products sold, so if your item breaks and the seller goes "oh well you need to go to the manufacturer to get it fixed" you can politely decline and demand that they repair/replace/refund it for you - that's the law.
Before manufacturing tolerances were as tight, they'd error on the side of caution and overbuild, resulting in a wider MTBF curve. There were both many early failures as well as ones which far exceeded their expected life. Now, the standard deviation is much smaller so the end-of-life has become more well-defined both at the cost of nothing much lasting longer nor shorter than expected.