Re: Never understood this
A lot of appliances designed as little as 20-25 years ago - before the peak of globalisation - are way more reliable and repairable than 99% of junk you can get now.
Just wait til your oft-repaired trusty decades old appliance finally gives up the ghost and you'll be forced to replace it with a sealed hunk of impenetrable and anyway unreplaceable mechanics surrounded by the flimsiest possible envelope of sheet steel (already bent out of shape long before you get it), a dozen or so strategically placed small plastic bits designed to break soon after but never before the warranty expires and which cost £10 plus P&P each if you can even source them, and a small PCB precariously attached to the steel envelope which is 50:50 for dying within the warranty and is the only thing the repair man can actually replace but never has with him.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
