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Originally Posted by eleanorigby
I don't define planned obsolescence as things fall apart at some point, and those things usually don't start off as shitty. I define it as (in this instance) Apple refusing to troubleshoot my 2012 MacBook Pro starting in 2020 because it was considered "too old". They directed me to a third party retailer (name forgotten by me). That's obsolescence, and it has to be planned by Apple. They decide which products they'll continue to support and which ones not. They did the same thing to my first laptop from Apple. I had to have 2 somethings which I do not recall replaced, but I did so at the Genius Bar, after that didn't work, they referred me to a 3rd party repair place (instead, I replaced the laptop).
It's a thing. At some point, parts for the older refrigerator or washer or whatever can't be gotten easily, if at all. Consumerism depends on us replacing, not repairing. It wasn't intended as a criticism.
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OK, then you are using a different definition than what is standard. You hate a different thing.
Planned obsolesce is the engineers intentionally designing something to fail after a certain amount of time has passed.