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When everyone already has one, no one needs to buy it anymore
Someone needs to create a business that bails out/buys excellent quality products and produces them in a small enough scale that only new owners will need.
Consider it an excellent achievement for a product to make it here. Only the best buy it for life products.
Someone needs to destroy private equity.
And the concept of infinite growth.
Financially, if your company is not expanding an increasing amount quarter on quarter on quarter, it's considered to be failing.
And yet, nothing can grow forever. At some point, all things must come to an end. It's an unrealistic pipe dream.
Say that the Instant Pot is so good that everyone has ten of them. Where would they grow from there?
The George Foreman machine is still my "peak design". And yet nobody owns one after everyone burned out on it from oversaturation.
They still sell panini press grills. It's generally a bachelor pad thing though.
I saw plenty of opportunities for enshitification and designed obsolescence.
There was an APP! So of course the natural order of things is to move more and more functionality from the physical control panel to the app. Then periodically let the app die by obsolescence. Force people to buy new phones to keep up, but then one day the new app no longer talks to old pressure cookers. Make the next version connect to the cloud for programs, and share with the IP maker everything you do. Sell that data to Amazon and Google who want to know what food you’re buying.
Then make the programs subscription based, so users have to pay a monthly fee to operate their cooker. Justify it by adding more and more programs. If someone does not pay their subscription, shut them down. Make the IP the biggest brick in the house.
I was actually disturbed that there was a Google Playstore app. Sure, it was optional, but I did not like the fact that my purchase in part financed the creation of an exclusive closed-source app exclusively available to Google and Apple patrons. It should have been an f-droid app.