current devices are made of spit and duct tape

Continuing the trend of technology hating me this year, at my 10 year HS reunion, my Canon SD450 decided that it doesn't want to open its lens cover anymore.

Annoying, I thought, but fixable.

So I get to a camera repair shop this morning, and the guy took a look at it and said "Buy a new one."

Keep in mind this is a 9 month old camera, and its only issue is that the lens cover is jammed. There's nothing wrong in the guts, no CCDs are cracked, this is purely mechanical. The guy told me that the cameras aren't built to be taken apart, and that if I send it back to Canon, they'll just throw it away and give me a refurb.

Seriously, this is where we've gotten? Anything I buy is built with garbage, assuming that I'll need a new one in a year? The repair industry has fallen to the point where they just throw up their hands in despair? This wasn't some cheap shitty camera, this was the nicer end of the Canon home line, 9 months ago.

Maybe 30 years from now, we can just design and create items on the fly with nanoclouds and disperse them when we no longer need them, but in the meantime, I wish we'd put a little more effort into it. I'm gonna check with Canon, hopefully I'm still under warranty.