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Product Design Pitfalls: When a Useful Object Becomes a Brick in Three Years
"we pay four to five times that amount for an iPhone that will only last us two years."
I see the merit in all your points but one. As a designer you should know that to implement the connection between the guides and the software in order to crop would require an extra electronic sensor system which may have pushed the price into a bracket they thought they couldn't justify. Maybe you do know this but neglected to mention? Given the fact the company didn't provide a charging circuit or provide support in the form of updates it seems clear what their motives were. Good article though.
I disagree Kris. There are software solutions that could automatically scale and crop for you based on white ,or in this case black, space. I also think that people have certain expectations when they dock any device (not only nowadays but since mainstream docks have been available ie. pre-2012), it's all about familiarity and that dictates that there should have been a charging circuit. This information is the sort of feedback I would have expected them to receive during user testing.
I was thinking about obsolescence this weekend when I ran across an old scanner in my basement and a Nook tablet in my office. What to do...