Emily Bieman, age 18 at Gunnedah - 
happy, finally out of that school

29. Companies Tricking Customers into Product Early Retirement so you buy another: Mouse.
The company that makes this particular PC mouse is stealing from its customers; by creating malware which they insert on people’s PC and it causes problems with a mouse after a set time, usually about 8 months or whenever they feel like it. So, you think that there's something wrong with it, it's come to its end of its life, and you have to purchase another one. BUT in fact there's nothing wrong with it - it is just a greedy thieving hacker making you think that there's something wrong with it. If you do buy another one, keep the old one, and then after six months try the old one; you'll see it works perfectly fine. 
by the way, this is a special smaller size mouse for people with petite hands; women, possibly children too. You would think that there would be quite a few you could choose from, but actually there's limited smaller sized PC mouse, and this one's probably the best, it's the smallest and most ergonomic. I have not seen any other competition for it. Just, unfortunately the company who sells this appears to be evil.
It’s along the same lines as how Apple installs device updates that reduce the running quality a little bit every time, as punishment for having an older device. A bad community.