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> Did I say they weren't interdependent? My response to you LITERALLY stated an interdependency.

I am referring to:

>> The iphone not having a replaceable battery is a design decision, it doesn't make the phone cheaper.

>> You are taking two independent phenomenons and trying to group them together as if they are the same phenomenon.

>What fashion argument?

14:25 in the video. :D

> The part of my response that you didn't even address is that I'm saying FAILURE is engineered into the design DELIBERATELY. It's not a side effect of creating a cheaper product.

Yes, there are examples of this deliberately happening. However, there are reasons why it happens as a side-effect of the engineering process, and this is an exponentially more common scenario (because it is common engineering process!).



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