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Default Planned Obselescence....A Good Thing?
(Alan ) writes:

Planned obsolescence has been a tenet of the automobile
industry since the '30s. General Motors, in particular
used styling to make a 2 or 3 year-old-car look "old" and in
need of replacement with a newly styled model.

A bigger engine, prettier colors, new styles, all those
things are at the heart of 'planned obsolescence.'

"Improving" the features on your cell phone every year is
the result of planned obsolescence.

No, that's fashion. If the old still works, then it's not
obsolete.

People who follow fashion trends are in the same boat. Their
clothes aren't obsolete, they simply don't want to wear them
anymore because they want the latest.

"Fashion" allows companies to sell the same thing to the same
people.

But the notion of "planned obsolescence" is that it's designed
from the beginner to not last long.

I'm not arguing that fashion causes people to buy new things.

Michael
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