Yes, but I was thinking more about cars and computers and clothes.

A lot of things have simply become lifestyle items and most people don't want to wear the same shoes for 15 years. They wouldn't pay three times the price to get the shoes to last 3 times as long. Same thing with cell-phones. They like getting a new phone every 2 years. They get upset, if you suggest they keep using the old one, since it's paid off.

Could this change? Probably not, in the near-term, as everyone is poorer now, so they can't afford the longer-lasting version, even if they wanted it.