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Comment Planned obsolesence (Score 1) 59

What if instead of creating a device that lasts for a few decades, they made your TV something you replace every couple of years? Sure, they're subsidising the $3,000 e-waste slab with future ad sales of sports betting for your kids' play room, but the good numbers must go up. Samsung must meet quarterly earnings expectations or doom will happen.

Comment Damning (Score 4, Insightful) 65

Translation here is that he knows it's going to break, but there's no way to figure out when, which is important for a hedge fund. So, rather than play any of the games, the safest hedge was to cash in his chips and go home. While he may not have cashed out at the peak, he and his customers have avaoid the inevitable freefall that will reach relativistic speeds before hurtling out of the solar system..

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