Types of planned obsolescence

Planned Obsolescence & End of Life | Blog | Curvature There are many methods that companies can use to implement a strategy of planned obsolescence, as each company’s method differs according to its objectives, types of products and its ability to actually implement that without incurring problems. The design of the product to be destroyed after a certain period is the most popular - as is the case with light bulbs that Damaged after a certain period - As for personal electronic products, some companies resort to adopting a policy of releasing a new product every year while promoting it in a way that makes it look much better than the old, despite the fact that it does not offer many necessary features for promotion.

For relatively small devices that contain a lot of components inside, such as phones and laptops, companies may design them in such a way that it is difficult to repair or replace their basic components, or it is possible to make the cost of repairing them very high so that the option of buying a newer device is more suitable for the consumer. Firms may have their own reasons for designing their products this way, but their apparent benefit from these practices remains questionable in the end.

During the past two decades, and with the increasing reliance on software as a major component of many electronic devices, system updates have become a new way for companies to take advantage of them to apply planned aging in a new way, so if you have a printer from 2010, for example, you might be surprised one day that it does not work well. Or it does not work at all when it is used with one of the modern computers that come with a newer operating system, and therefore the only solution at that time is to buy a new printer or an old computer to run it.

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