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是,是,是,新 iPhone,新 IOS,新玩意,便宜,昂贵,等等等等。 没人需要告诉你你的手机在你买后大约一个半小时就过时了,也没人需要告诉你你的旧手机要么堆积在我们的房子里(我不用离开我的桌子就可以拿到两部旧手机)[...]

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是,是,是,新 iPhone,新 IOS,新玩意,便宜,昂贵,等等等等。

没人需要告诉你你的手机在你买后大约一个半小时就过时了,也没人需要告诉你你的旧手机要么堆积在我们的房子里(我不用离开我的桌子就可以拿到两部旧手机),要么加入涌入废物流的电子垃圾浪潮,或者被运往发展中国家,在那里,收入微薄的人们冒着接触化学品和其他危险的风险,从垃圾山中开采贵金属

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这个想法很简单。 各个制造商在一个乐高式的手机模型中合作,该模型由独立的模块组成:一个摄像头模块、一个存储器模块、一个电池模块、一个屏幕模块,所有模块都安装在一个基本的网格底座中。 您可以设计自己的手机——选择您自己的组件,无论是苹果、三星、诺基亚还是摩托罗拉或其他任何制造商的组件。 组装完成后,您就得到了它。 新的、更快的芯片问世了? 您可以更换它,而不是整个手机。 如果你想的话。

好吧。 我会等你停止嘲笑的。 没能理解“各个制造商合作”,是吗? 我也没有。 这是一个美好的想法——就像解绑的有线电视节目选择,以及有价值且廉价的自动门锁,而没有汽车上不可靠且昂贵的自动车窗。 或者像获得最高 MPG 的汽车。

我喜欢这个想法——但要使它奏效,这么多公司必须选择根据客户的选择,通过交付良好且持久的产品来获得合理的利润,而不是根据他们自己的利润最大化模型,通过交付良好但寿命短的产品来获得巨额利润,以至于这几乎是不可能实现的。

我的意思是,分享这个视频,尽可能大声地喊,尝试让制造商开始设计比他们的包装更耐用的电子产品。 我支持它,我与你同在。

但我不能说我很乐观。

 

Scott Huler was born in 1959 in Cleveland and raised in that city's eastern suburbs. He graduated from Washington University in 1981; he was made a member of Phi Beta Kappa because of the breadth of his studies, and that breadth has been a signature of his writing work. He has written on everything from the death penalty to bikini waxing, from NASCAR racing to the stealth bomber, for such newspapers as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Los Angeles Times and such magazines as ESPN, Backpacker, and Fortune. His award-winning radio work has been heard on "All Things Considered" and "Day to Day" on National Public Radio and on "Marketplace" and "Splendid Table" on American Public Media. He has been a staff writer for the Philadelphia Daily News and the Raleigh News & Observer and a staff reporter and producer for Nashville Public Radio. He was the founding and managing editor of the Nashville City Paper. He has taught at such colleges as Berry College and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

His books include Defining the Wind, about the Beaufort Scale of wind force, and No-Man's Lands, about retracing the journey of Odysseus.

His most recent book, On the Grid, was his sixth. His work has been included in such compilations as Appalachian Adventure and in such anthologies as Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont, The Appalachian Trail Reader and Speed: Stories of Survival from Behind the Wheel.

For 2014-2015 Scott is a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, which is funding his work on the Lawson Trek, an effort to retrace the journey of explorer John Lawson through the Carolinas in 1700-1701.

He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with his wife, the writer June Spence, and their two sons.

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