Re:Apple’s iPhone 14 Redesign for Repair
by incanus77 on Monday September 19, 2022 @01:07PM
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> That's why we should regulate products that are a runaway success to make sure their success doesn't come at the expense of other things around us.
Yes, I agree completely. But I wasn't talking about regulation, I was talking about tinkerer users not understanding how the delicate balance achieved by a product is the reason that it is successful and good.
Just because a product is a runaway success does not mean it's also not a potential environmental disaster waiting to happen. Cars were also a runaway success. So were plastic bags and straws. So was snake oil and so are various sugary fizzy drinks that destroy your health.
We can't just leave everything to the free market and the uninformed preferences of the consumers and watch everything around us burn because $THING is successful because $CORPORATION advertises it and consumers love it, otherwise we end up in the dystopian Idiocracy scenario of "Brawndo is what plants crave because it has electrolytes and is the no. 1 thirst mutilator".
That's why we should regulate products that are a runaway success to make sure their success doesn't come at the expense of other things around us.