A recent interview with an industry whistleblower has suggested that the automotive sector is intentionally designing vehicles to be less robust than their predecessors. His assertion is that lapses ...

Planned obsolescence is a tempting doorstep upon which to dump failures like this, but a good case can be made that planned obsolescence isn’t really a thing, even if manufacturers compromising ...

Planned obsolescence is a symptom of late-stage capitalism that pervades a lot of big corporations because it means more consumption ultimately more profit. Our Changing Climate.

Planned Obsolescence. The clothes and shoes we wear, houses we live in, and the tools and objects we reach for every day are simply not built to last.

Planned Obsolescence Is Good For Investors, But Not Consumers: Economics 101 tells us that for-profit companies (across the board) do their best to get people to buy more things from them.

Planned obsolescence is built into many products, although there is a downside for the environment and consumers. It occurs in electronics, video games, textbooks, light bulbs, cars, etc.

Products of all types — cars, incandescent bulbs, your iPad and iPhone — are designed with planned obsolescence in mind. The need or desire to replace products quickly and a shorter product ...

Oftentimes, planned obsolescence isn’t nakedly exploitative, as it benefits both the consumer and the manufacturer. Chevalier points out that companies tailor the durability of their goods per ...

Functional Obsolescence essentially means that there is a reduction in the property's desirability, typically because of an outdated feature that cannot easily be altered or changed.

Best laid plans. At its core, planned obsolescence is a method of making useful products seem obsolete before this is the case, typically with the intent of selling a ‘new and improved’ version.

Functional obsolescence is a reduction of an object's usefulness or desirability because of an outdated design feature that cannot be easily changed.

Many software obsolescence events are "strong" events, in which continued manufacturing of new systems and operation of fielded systems may not be allowed when the software becomes obsolete.