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>What I am bemoaning is planned obsolescence, under capitalism there is hardly any incentive to make things more durable unless absolutely necessary.

Counterexample: gorilla glass on phones. Surely using it isn't "absolutely necessary" either?

Also, you can apply the same logic to planned economies. What are you going to do, buy it from the competitor?

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At the same time smart phones are also a great example for my point: Just consider soldered on batteries and the lack of software updates or in Apples case slowing down old phones.

I guess the reason why a lot of phones use gorilla glass is that the quality difference to regular glass is more noticeable and things like scratch resistance are a little more than just pure durability.

But I have to admit that my statement was of course somewhat hyperbole :)

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