![]() Lai’s behavior might be extreme, but his experience with the Palm Treo illustrates there is another way: If you simply put some maintenance into electronics as you would a car, you can stay happy with your gadgets for years. Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president for worldwide marketing, said at a product event last month that it was “really sad” that more than 600 million computers in use today are more than five years old. Companies like Apple, AT&T and T-Mobile USA now offer early upgrade plans that allow consumers to buy a new cellphone every year. Many tech companies are trying to train people to constantly upgrade their gadgets - part ways with a device, the argument goes, as soon as something newer and faster comes along. Now he works for the Fixers Collective, a social club in New York that repairs aging devices to extend their lives. “That’s how I think about a lot of my tech stuff: candidates for 11th-hour pet rescue,” said Lai, adding that he was fired from the recycling facility in 2010 after continuing to take home unwanted gadgets, against the wishes of his boss. So he took the device home and made it his everyday mobile companion, much as one would adopt an abandoned animal on its way to being euthanized. Lai, 49, tested the Treo and found it still worked. Vincent Lai was working at a recycling facility in New York and sorting through a bin of used cellphones a few years ago when he dug up a Palm Treo, a smartphone that was discontinued last decade. ![]()
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