> Technology has advanced to the point where they can get some components to fail soon after warranty period expired with decent accuracy. Power unit failure tends to be a common one.
Unless the hardware is designed to be damaged (or restricted) by software, there's no way this is true. Technology can be great, but you can't "program" hardware to die on a certain date without knowing how it will be used, how long it will be used, what temperatures it will operate in, etc.
And you're not even considering that the manufacturer has no idea when the hardware will be sold and therefore doesn't even know the date that the hardware "should" fail.
Unless you have some evidence that this is both possible and happening, it's just a conspiracy theory.
Unless the hardware is designed to be damaged (or restricted) by software, there's no way this is true. Technology can be great, but you can't "program" hardware to die on a certain date without knowing how it will be used, how long it will be used, what temperatures it will operate in, etc.
And you're not even considering that the manufacturer has no idea when the hardware will be sold and therefore doesn't even know the date that the hardware "should" fail.
Unless you have some evidence that this is both possible and happening, it's just a conspiracy theory.