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in reply to Sarah Brown

I paid over 30k euros for a car and the app that accompanies it is dogshit.

Nobody cares any more.

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in reply to Sarah Brown

car companies can't do software in general. Source: I have a Peugeot.
in reply to Sarah Brown

All so true. When our kids were small and I had an iPhone (a 4S), my BIL and I were wanting to share pics of our kids, post Christmas. No problem, he says, I'll just Bluetooth them over from my crappy, old Android (my sister wouldn't let him buy a decent phone as he was *constantly* breaking or losing them 😁) .

And he couldn't, because on my spanky new iPhone, Apple had deliberately broken Bluetooth connectivity.

I thought then, this is going to get worse. I think of that often.

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Sarah Brown
@Piers Cawley yeah. I have to accept the T&Cs every time I turn my Leaf on.
in reply to Sarah Brown

Everything is built down to a cost, not up to a quality.
in reply to Sarah Brown

Sorry to change the subject slightly, but another area is furniture. Almost all my furniture is pre-1990 stuff that I got second-hand. I threw out all my new IKEA furniture after they begun failing within 3-12 months of buying them. I thought I'd found a quality furniture store recently, but it turned out their furniture was second-hand. I've become convinced that it's not possible to buy quality, first-hand furniture anymore.
in reply to Sarah Brown

Suitcases too: I have a suitcase from the 70s that my dad gave me, saying "you can dump it". Is he nuts? It may look old-fashioned, but made of proper leather with metal clasps. I'm over 30, but am sure that suitcase will outlast me. Compared to suitcases made these days, which will last 15 years if you're lucky. I hate the concept of planned obsolescence so much!
in reply to Llwynog

@llwynog
I have the same experience when it comes to clothes and textiles from the parents' or grandparents' generation:
clearing out my parents' house I remember handling old clothes (coats, blouses, shoes, gloves and scarves), and the realization on the first touch:
"Wow, this such a great, thick and built-to-last quality of textile!"
This was clothing that was 50 to 80 years old.

I wasnt used to feeling that kind of quality in my clothes lifetime. Mindboggling. Sad.

in reply to Sarah Brown

Capitalism does to products what it does to everything else: the wealth gap, here visible in quality and price tag.

The midrange products are kinda gone or turned to shit. We now have a lot of shitty cheap stuff (getting less cheap by the day in many cases) and very high end quality stuff, unaffordable by most.

On top of that, all the crap technology now allows like subscriptions to be able to use the hardware we paid for are not prevalent.

in reply to Miguel Arroz

Regarding cars, if I was on the market for one, I would look into the Hyundai Kona (or Kauai or whatever it’s called in Portugal to avoid the c word). It’s a bit SUVy so you probably won’t like it, and I’m not sure about the enshittification factor. However it seems to be the car that usually gets higher ratings on range per kW second only to the fascist EVs (and I’m almost sure the battery has active cooling).
in reply to Sarah Brown

This. It’s long past time for youtu.be/ZwMVMbmQBug?si=ALSzsm…