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this post was submitted on 27 May 2024
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Not really. Unless you think dishes are planned obsolescence.
I crashed my boat into a rock. PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE.
Yeah this one was easy to break. I originally up voted the post, but quickly changed my mind.
Now that you mention it, we live in the future! Where are my indestructible, microwave-safe, and machine-wash safe plates? Don't say plastic, those get weird with high temperatures.
Superfest made them. None of the glass makers and distributers would buy them because they were practically indestructible, so they couldn't see infinite sales.
Ironically it's only used on phones now so it's clearly not the chemical hardening alone that made them amazing.
Hmm... maybe. You should look up East German Superfest glass. Big dishware producers refused to use it because it meant not selling replacement dishes.
Though, OP's argument is just dumb.
You transport the dishes, sure, but do you eat from them while standing? I was specifically referring to handheld devices.
Wine glasses, yeah. And other drink glasses too. But yeah, I assume you mean handheld electronics, which even that is a stretch. Handheld CD players, camcorders, cameras, are all pretty fragile and I wouldn’t say they’re planned obsolescence. You just gotta be careful with fragile things. We use our phones way more often than any electronic device from the past, so more chance to drop them and notice how fragile they are.