For a few months I was getting warnings that my HP printer would no longer have parts available. I swear to you not long after the warnings I started having problems with my printer. The problem had to do with my laptop talking to the printer. I find it very suspicious. I still can get it to work usually, but is unreliable now.
I knew Apple had to be screwing with their phones, and then there was that court case or whatever that they were purposely slowing down speed at which the phone worked. @stanleybmanly seems to know more about Apple and the crap they pull. I was very reluctant to buying Apple for years for many reasons, but I do have an iphone now and an ipad over ten years now.
The Japanese car manufacturers gained a lot of market share in the US in the 80’s and 90’s because of reliability while American auto makers were purposely making cars that would fall apart. It seems like a lot of industries have not learned from this.
I don’t see how you can order a company to keep producing parts. I do think it is good customer relations and smart business to keep selling the parts and to build quality products to begin with.
Part of the problem in the US is consumers want items to be very inexpensive. There used to be moderately priced well made appliance, clothing, even cars. There is almost no in between now. It is either choosing something very expensive or very cheap in almost every category. As far as cell phone, they are crazy expensive. I wonder how much they make on each phone. They get you to trade in your phone so there is no secondary market. I don’t like it.