Modularity has several drawbacks. You need a connector on the host and a connector on the addon. This means you have added cost; not just component cost but in circuit board design. There are more solder connections, and thus more places for the gadget to fail. You've also made the device bigger and heavier.
In theory PCs are modular and upgradable. Except everything obsoletes every few years. Even things which sort of are the same (RAM) have changing features. (See, for example, DDR 2 vs DDR 3)
Baffling pop at America there. Many of these devices are designed outside the US, made outside the US, and sold outside the US.
Semi-disposable hardware is not merely a US problem.
I'm happy to shake my fist at the yanks - they use / waste an enormous amount of energy and should really start to focus on efficiency.
In theory PCs are modular and upgradable. Except everything obsoletes every few years. Even things which sort of are the same (RAM) have changing features. (See, for example, DDR 2 vs DDR 3)
Baffling pop at America there. Many of these devices are designed outside the US, made outside the US, and sold outside the US.
Semi-disposable hardware is not merely a US problem.
I'm happy to shake my fist at the yanks - they use / waste an enormous amount of energy and should really start to focus on efficiency.