Planned obsolescence, in industrial design and economics is a policy of planning or designing a product with an artificially limited useful life, so it will become obsolete (that is, unfashionable or no longer functional) after a certain period of time. The rationale behind the strategy is to generate long-term sales volume by reducing the time between repeat purchases (referred to as "shortening the replacement cycle").
For example, last month Apple had to apologize and step back. Because the CPU of the iPhone 6 was first operated at 1400 MHz, it dropped to 600 MHz after three years. It is at least two times slower. Apple has announced that you knowingly do it for the sake of making your phone work more stable because battery life is getting shorter, but it's hard for an average user to understand. Let's just say he understood, then he might want to change his battery and make it work again fast. But it is not easy to open the inside of these devices and change the battery though. So the first solution that comes to mind for a casual user is to be an ordinary consumer and buying the new model.
In this way, we are economically growing in the short ward but in the long ward, do we transform the world into an dumping.
Thanks in advance for your comments and contributes.
Murat
The contemporary designs are supposed to accommodate the environmental and social variables
The contemporary designs are supposed to accommodate the environmental and social variables
Yes. Also, in my opinion, there is a potential threat for the companies which apply such tactics, as that of the question, concerning their sales.
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Environmental threat is when recycling comes !!!!
Performance metrics for CPUs have many factors , frequency is just one of them . Just because the CPU frequency is high does not mean everything operate on that time scale . The OS is the controlling fellow because he needs to manage other device !!!
e.g: Incoming call - notifying /call connection is on ms range
So you can imagine there are many issues that limit performance !! so we use the word "trade-off" pretty handy ...
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