<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 11:02 AM, René J.V. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rjvbertin@gmail.com" target="_blank">rjvbertin@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">And yes, I do keep in mind that Apple has reasons to drive sales and incite people to buy new hardware and is probably not above tactics that decrease a product's theoretical lifetime.</blockquote></div><br>I think there are a lot of things one can do that can have the side effect of pushing the boundaries of hardware (this includes things like compression). Not to mention things like SSD where you are explicitly trading lifetime for performance. Searching for reasons to believe it's just to drive obsolescence isn't particularly fruitful, unless you consider paranoia an end in itself.<br><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div><div>unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad <a href="http://sinenomine.net" target="_blank">http://sinenomine.net</a></div></div></div>
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