One "advantage" of consumerism is cheap = changeable
The sad part of modern technology is that you can't fix it yourself, nor do you understand how it works. It doesn't make you any smarter.
That said, having a luxury product that last 60 years is a very niche market.
Yet they only provide a 5 year warranty. I would expect a $600 desk lamp to have at a lifetime warranty.
And they couldn’t even be bothered to get the warranty details right: at the top of the page, it says parts and labor, but at the bottom it says parts only.
I do miss having items that when they break, I could pull apart and repair too.
This. Technologies evolve/improve so fast, you don't want to be stuck with them forever anyway.
But then again, how many years could it be operational when depending on an app.
There's a whole subreddit devoted to it, /r/buyitforlife.[1] I guess that's not much of a claim, since there's a subreddit for everything, but this one is kinda neat. :)
That said, I think what a lot of people take issue with on Dyson devices is the extreme price premium which isn't really required most the time to achieve the advertised level of quality.