Society requires a level of stability that no tech companies is willing to provide. There is a lot of money in forcing users to buy new stuff, and to force them to be connected to central servers that monitor their usage and allows them to sell more stuff to their already existing clients.
As everything becomes a subscription and all items are just rented (even if you purchased them) people owns nothing, and the real owners of everything are the corporations that build them.
That is unsustainable, wasteful and abusive behavior. Only new laws can stop tech corporations lack of long term support. I can buy a normal lamp and use it 40 years later. Tech products last less than a decade and force updates and upgrades all the time. Everything is just getting worse.
So true. It is abuse because the customer is largely trapped. I try my best to avoid subscriptions and tech for everyday things, but I have done the thought experiment for a possible future and it's kinda scary. Say I like photography - what happens when cameras get so "advanced" that they need a subscription? I'm basically screwed because the average Joe can't build a camera from scratch (or maybe you can if you go to extremes like devoting 10 years to it). What then? Bye bye all hobbies which involve nontrivial tech?
As everything becomes a subscription and all items are just rented (even if you purchased them) people owns nothing, and the real owners of everything are the corporations that build them.
That is unsustainable, wasteful and abusive behavior. Only new laws can stop tech corporations lack of long term support. I can buy a normal lamp and use it 40 years later. Tech products last less than a decade and force updates and upgrades all the time. Everything is just getting worse.