Textbook Planned Obsolescence

This is not my first Phillips Norelco hair clipper. It is my second. The first one still works and I keep it for the features the second one does not have. Like a smaller clipper head for trimming around the sideburns. (But, hey, you can purchase a second clipper to do the job that the original clipper used to do...) The reason I purchased this second clipper was because the first clipper comb attachment tabs broke off, rendering the device usable but severely compromised. This second clipper - albeit lighter in weight - still suffers from the same design 'flaw' - (read: planned obsolescence) that the first one had and from which this second one will, no doubt, suffer. The problem is that the comb is very difficult to remove for cleaning and to reinstall for normal use. The plastic tabs (the ones that broke in the original clipper) are ridiculously difficult to work with. You're never quite sure they're in or out or how to hold/squeeze the dam thing to get them in or out. I do not want to manhandle this thing, but I am almost forced to by this ridiculous (but, obviously profitable) design. The sad truth is there's nothing on the market that I am aware of that will do the 180 deg pivot like this thing does, and so we're stuck having to buy this thing again and again and again... On the plus side, when it works it works well. But the piece-parts will keep breaking and Phillips Norelco will keep on selling the same old crappy design as long as the money keeps rolling in. Hey Phillips: stop selling this crap and fix your design!!!

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