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mschuster91yesterday at 11:21 AM1 replyview on HN

> If mobile devices would routinely last twenty years, which they very well could, that would reduce a lot of e-waste.

Unfortunately, battery technology doesn't - and even if we had long lasting batteries, we'd also need fall-resistant screens. And no matter what, even if you have a device held together by screws and allowing easy repair instead of messing around with glue and click-tabs... screens still are really expensive, making it often enough more worthwhile to take the opportunity and upgrade the whole device rather than to repair the screen.


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layer8yesterday at 12:53 PM

Batteries are easily replacable. LCD can last a long time, my main desktop monitor is 18 years old at this point. OLED less so, admittedly.

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