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planned obsolescence
noun
a method of stimulating consumer demand by designing products that wear out or become outmoded after limited use.
planned obsolescence
noun
Also called: built-in obsolescence.Ģżthe policy of deliberately limiting the life of a product in order to encourage the purchaser to replace it
planned obsolescence
Incorporating into a product features that will almost certainly go out of favor in a short time, thereby inducing the consumer to purchase a new model of the product. Placing sweeping tail fins on an automobile was an example of planned obsolescence.
51³Ō¹Ļ History and Origins
Origin of planned obsolescence1
Example Sentences
Because he collects and dissects so many discarded and auctioned-off laptops and phones, he has a unique vantage point on the wasteful effects of planned obsolescence and technology addiction.
Plastics helped make that possible, but so do dastardly corporate strategies like āplanned obsolescenceā that phase out your iPhone so you have to buy a new one.
If you want to know what the opposite of āplanned obsolescenceā looks like in tech, then all youāve had to do for the last 20 years in look up at the sky and watch the International Space Station pass overhead.
āWhy do most 40-year-old refrigerators work like the day they were purchased but top-of-the-line new refrigerators barely last a decade if youāre lucky? Thatās not innovation; thatās planned obsolescence,ā said Nick Lapis, director of advocacy for Californians Against Waste, which lobbied for the legislation.
The revolt of the machines is less dramatic than our ancestors dreamed: You disconnect a switch, you go on a trip, you break the charger, you let planned obsolescence do its thing.
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