Planned Obsolesce

Planned Obsolesce

1. What is?

   • Planned obsolescence or planned obsolescence is the determination or scheduling of the end of the useful life of a product, so that, after a period of time calculated in advance by the manufacturer or by the company during the design phase of the same, this is become obsolete, non-functional, useless or unusable by various procedures, for example due to lack of spare parts, and it is necessary to buy a new one to replace it.
     • The first product affected by obsolescence programmed was the incandescent lamp. One of the The first prototypes have been in operation since 1901. Thomas Alva Edison, created a prototype lasting 1500 hours. The success was resounding and several companies dedicated to its manufacture. At first the goal was to create more durable bulbs; However, everything changed when they allied to create the Cartel Phoebus to set a maximum duration of 1000 hours of use and penalize manufacturers who violate the new norm.
       • But right now, this phenomenon continues to be seen, in things like your cell phone, computers, operating systems, video games, movies, etc.

2. For the industry, this attitude positively stimulates demand by encouraging consumers to buy new products in an artificially accelerated way if they want to continue using them.