alt Hacker News> Weight equipment should be able to last decades.
"should" or "actually can"? Do you have references to show that's the actual lifespan of the equipment, mechanically?
> Weight equipment should be able to last decades.
"should" or "actually can"? Do you have references to show that's the actual lifespan of the equipment, mechanically?
Weight training equipment lasts decades all the time. It's just big piles of metal, it's not hard to get right.
What actually prompted the engineering-CYA "should" is if the Android tablet is controlling some sort of robotic system for selecting weight sizes, that that system might have an expected life span on par with a tablet, being a physical thing moving around some pins or something in a potentially hostile user environment. That'll break long before anything else would.