I'm betting on competition driving down prices. 

Aye, but a different problem than that which RoHS wrought.

(feeling a bit lyrical today!)

My company sells B2B.  YOu can bet those business customers of ours don't 
buy new every year to get the shiny new product.

Not every housewife wants a new washer every 3 years.

I see forcing obsolesence in the name of environmental improvement an easily 
avoidable technological travesty.

Rampant consumerism, OTOH, is a bigger and more difficult moral issue.  
This "terrible recession" (apologies to those out of work) hasn't seemed to 
slow it down much.

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