Please don't be obtuse and intentionally ignore all the of the legitimate reasons why they are doing all these things. You're clearly and obviously smart enough to know what those reasons are. Hint: they're not "planned obsolescence" or any such bullshit. It would be better if we could discuss those issues honestly.
Well, surprise. You're part of what those on the right side of the game call "planned obsolescence". Unfortunately, you're on the wrong side of the game. Now please stop asking questions and continue consuming.
Please don't continue lazily spreading this "planned obsolescence" nonsense, especially in cases like this where it's obvious, immediately, that the claim is wholly unsupported by any facts or even possible theories. Thanks.
I knew planned obsolescence was a thing, but this is just insane to me! At best, it's really disingenuous (which is bad enough). No wonder we have so many conspiracy theorists. They've somehow socially engineered this situation to be acceptable (and relatively unknown).
I don't buy this planned obsolescence bs. I get that most markets aren't very free, but they're free enough to ensure that superior products generally win out. Companies are trying to make money today. They aren't thinking: "hey, let's put out a crappy product that will be worse than our competitors' so that people will have to buy more of our stuff in the future!"
Any company that did that wouldn't make it to tomorrow.
The conspiratorial tone may be because planned obsolescence is literally a conspiracy - a secret plan by the manufacturer (composed of multiple people) for a harmful purpose - causing the early breakdown of a useful good.
Unfortunately I don't have much solid information to contribute about specific instances.
"Planned obsolescence across the entire industry" is by definition a conspiracy. Without a conspiracy, any one of the involved companies would be striving to meet customer demand in order to gain an edge over their competition... if it were practical. As it turns out, they are doing what they consider practical.
You keep using the term "planned obsolescence", but it doesn't mean what you seem to think it means. Intel producing better processors every year isn't planned obsolescence... it's just the progress of technology, which naturally makes old technologies obsolete. It can't "amount to the same thing" as planned obsolescence. It's either planned or it isn't. 10gig has not reached the consumer space yet. It doesn't matter that it was standardized a long time ago. It's not a conspiracy or planned obsolescence... it's just price vs benefit, and 2.5gig is cheaper because it uses simpler technology.
Calling something "planned obsolescence" is a fairly serious accusation of intent. It obviously annoys me when people make statements like this without evidence.
And I mean, if you're a company that does planned obsolescence and your users will continue to buy your latest products without caring about repairing them, why wouldn't you continue to use planned obsolescence?
>Planned obsolescence just means artificially shortening the upgrade cycle.
No, it doesn't not. Planned obsolescence, just the like the actual words in the term are defined, means planning for the fact that technology and the components it's made from has a finite lifespan and that, at some point, users of that technology will have to upgrade. You're inferring that companies are intentionally sabotaging their products to compel and force people to upgrade and that might be the stupidest take I've ever heard.
I'm not totally sure how exploding batteries and optional OS upgrades are driving you forward through planned obsolescence. I feel like maybe in your apparent "rage" you lost the logic thread of the point you actually wanted to make and conflated a few things into an incoherent rant.
This might be a tinfoil hat take but for me the default is planned obsolescence, simply for the fact there is no reason for companies not to do so (negligible downside, a lot to gain). Right from slowing down old smartphones, college textbooks, un-repairable electronics, the examples are plentiful.
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