It seems so! Technology fro years back could be used much longer then it is now!
It the technology backward or is it done deliberatly?
I think the latter!
printers 'die' after so much years, cars don't last longer then 5 years, computers break down rather fast. lightbulbs 'die'
after so may hourse and the list goes on and on.
what do you think?
It seems so! Technology fro years back could be used much longer then it is now!
It the technology backward or is it done deliberatly?
I think the latter!
printers 'die' after so much years, cars don't last longer then 5 years, computers break down rather fast. lightbulbs 'die'
after so may hourse and the list goes on and on.
what do you think?
It seems so! Technology fro years back could be used much longer then it is now!
It the technology backward or is it done deliberatly?
I think the latter!
printers 'die' after so much years, cars don't last longer then 5 years, computers break down rather fast. lightbulbs 'die'
after so may hourse and the list goes on and on.
what do you think?
what world are you living in? I've never owned a car younger then 12 years. I've put multiple cars past 12 years and 200,000 miles. cars thirty years ago only had five didgets on the odometer. you are not correct here.
Yes and it is actually proven.
Take printer cartridges..the original kind. They are designed to last for X amount of prints, not on the level of ink in the cartridge. Printers are also designed for cheapness (well the cheap ones), so much that in the manual/guarantee it actually states that the company will not fix broken parts. Had a client where a bit of plastic had broken in his 80 dollar 7 year old printer. He wanted it fixed, but I told him that .. get real. My cost plus if I could find the bit of plastic.. would be way more than buying a new one.
Or even mobile phones. Apple and others design them to last 2-3 years.. battery wise and such. After that, performance of the hardware goes down by design, and of course with software upgrades that is only made worse. It is an actual policy statement with Apple (got released a year ago by mistake)
In some markets, companies have been busted for actually limiting the life span of their products. Apple did it in the 1990s with the iPod in Europe and got fined for it. Samsung has been accused of it in Denmark on TVs (although I have Samsung TVs that are 10 years old, so dunno about that one).
Just the opposite is true. Today's quality is far ahead of the past decades. The old days of "We do it right so we don't need no QA" are all but gone and forgotten. Better materials, better employee training, documented production methods and systems, better packaging, better quality plans and systems and testing equipment and better QA personnel training, better customer service, better warranties, better product return policies. I have spent 40+ years in quality assurance working in many countries and have seen a world of difference in today's industries. Of course there are still those that believe in cutting corners and those that still don't buy in to QA rigid QA program because they view it as simply money that could be spent on production concerns. I have done quality audits all over the country and have heard every excuse on not believing in QA because they "do it right" mentality and not one of those companies ever passes and audit. Japan paid a heavy price after WWII by making junk in every industry from radios to cars only to turn it around to be one of the world leaders in quality.
There is some planed obsolescence, but mostly just .
what world are you living in? I've never owned a car younger then 12 years. I've put multiple cars past 12 years and 200,000 miles. cars thirty years ago only had five didgets on the odometer. you are not correct here.
I would not equate them so readily.I would say planned obsolescence = engineering trade offs driven by market forces
Company breaks open Apple Watch to discover what it says is 'planned obsolescence'
Tech website iFixit found that Apple had ensured that the technology would eventually fall out of use, forcing customers to buy new products
Company breaks open Apple Watch to discover what it says is 'planned obsolescence' | Tech | Lifestyle | The Independent
I would not equate them so readily.
Planned obsolescence is a business strategy in which the obsolescence (the process of becoming obsolete—that is, unfashionable or no longer usable) of a product is planned and built into it from its conception. This is done so that in future the consumer feels a need to purchase new products and services that the manufacturer brings out as replacements for the old ones.
You are not alone either...
As the life cycle of products has increased—largely because of their greater technical excellence—firms have found that they need to plan for those products' obsolescence more carefully. Take, for instance, the example of the automobile. Its greater durability has made consumers reluctant to change their models as frequently as they used to. As the useful life of the car has been extended, manufacturers have focused on shortening its fashionable life. By adding styling and cosmetic changes to their vehicles, they have subtly attempted to make their older models look outdated, thus persuading consumers to trade them in for new ones.
Planned obsolescence | The Economist
Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America
If you've replaced a computer lately--or a cell phone, a camera, a television--chances are, the old one still worked. And chances are even greater that the latest model won't last as long as the one it replaced. Welcome to the world of planned obsolescence--a business model, a way of life, and a uniquely American invention that this eye-opening book explores from its beginnings to its perilous implications for the very near future.
Made to Break is a history of twentieth-century technology as seen through the prism of obsolescence. America invented everything that is now disposable, Giles Slade tells us, and he explains how disposability was in fact a necessary condition for America's rejection of tradition and our acceptance of change and impermanence. His book shows us the ideas behind obsolescence at work in such American milestones as the inventions of branding, packaging, and advertising; the contest for market dominance between GM and Ford; the struggle for a national communications network, the development of electronic technologies--and with it the avalanche of electronic consumer waste that will overwhelm America's landfills and poison its water within the coming decade.
History reserves a privileged place for those societies that built things to last--forever, if possible. What place will it hold for a society addicted to consumption--a whole culture made to break? This book gives us a detailed and harrowing picture of how, by choosing to support ever-shorter product lives we may well be shortening the future of our way of life as well.
Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America: Giles Slade: 9780674022034: Amazon.com: Books
well, I don't know:
Whatever they may be trying to do it is not working as the chart shows. People are keeping their cars longer and longer. I also think foreign competion has improved American cars tremendously.
It seems so! Technology fro years back could be used much longer then it is now!
It the technology backward or is it done deliberatly?
I think the latter!
printers 'die' after so much years, cars don't last longer then 5 years, computers break down rather fast. lightbulbs 'die'
after so may hourse and the list goes on and on.
what do you think?
You are not alone either...
That's a bit misleading though as the 90s ( where this chart starts were times of cheap (cheaply made) cars as was the mid to late 70s..
If we had a chart going back to say the 50s I bet you would see a very different picture.
That's a bit misleading though as the 90s ( where this chart starts were times of cheap (cheaply made) cars as was the mid to late 70s..
If we had a chart going back to say the 50s I bet you would see a very different picture.
Hmm good comment, haven't thought of that. Thanks.
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