Agreed.
You and me both Bottesini - love the pigs flying graphic - but I'd love to be the guy who either figures out why or comes up with a solution.
The whole thing reminds me of a friend of mine who went to buy a washing machine at a store and noticed an 20-year old model in the back that happened to be the same one he was still using. He told the salesman that they should advertise that fact and the guy laughed out loud at him: "Are you kidding? The last thing we want is equipment that will last 20 years! We'd go out of business if everything we sold was that reliable!".
That, unfortunately, is capitalism in a nutshell. You don't make money unless customers need to replace what you're selling often enough for you to make a bigger profit. Or put simply, why sell something that will last ten years without fail when you could sell twice as many that die in half the time.
Okay, call me cynical.
