Planned Obsolescence: The case for designing services with limited shelf life
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[–]happysmash27 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun - 4 years ago* (2 children)
What defines the shelf life of these electronic items? I'm pretty sure a lot of the Apple products, for example, last a lot longer than is listed here.
Edit: Also, do you have a link to the specific page you found this infographic?
[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun - 4 years ago (1 child)
Shelf life would mean how long the company supports said products. Obviously you can continue to use the original iPhone, or the SNES, but Apple doesn't repair or make updates for the iPhone, and Nintendo doesn't sell the SNES or make games for it.
[–]happysmash27 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 4 years ago (0 children)
Don't iPhones get about 5 years of updates though? The iMac G3, too, appears to have OS support to OS X 10.5, released almost a decade later, which is a few years more than 5.
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