Hello Everyone
Who in these times has not seen the speed with which electronic and technological products are launched? I think that most of us have experienced that feeling that the products we have, are no longer useful or it unable to give the same performance they gave us at the beginning, for example, smartphones, it is true that over time the applications have more features that require more resources and these are slow in "old" devices, the question is this, not all people have enough money to update their smartphone every year and do not see the need to do it, but most we have had an old smartphone and we are pressured by the same device to change it, it gets slow in relatively simple processes, it overheats, the battery starts to wear out and among other things, this is because smartphones are old ? Or is it a technique of the companies to generate more sales, the so-called programmed obsolescence?
For those who are not familiar with the term "programmed obsolescence", I will explain a little, the "programmed obsolescence" is about the unilateral determination on the part of the companies to put a maximum limit of useful life to a product, either buying raw material of a medium or low quality, the removal of the minimum amount of spare parts for a product or send updates to the system the worst optimized possible so that the product will wear even faster.
The clearest and most famous example of "programmed obsolescence" is the bulb, when the bulb was invented, it was created thinking about a durable product, it was determined by the "programmed obsolescence" before it went massively to the market since we think ...
"If I have 100 houses and each one needs a light bulb, the light bulb that we have created lasts 10 years maximum, it means that I will have to wait 10 years to sell 100 bulbs"
as we see it was logical that opt for the "programmed obsolescence" in this case, otherwise the companies that created this product were going to go bankrupt, this type of "programmed obsolescence" is the one planned today in the technology companies, companies such as Apple, Samsung, Nokia, Huawei, among others.
The technology companies were created with the ideology of creating tools that will help make life easier for people and this was the case until technology came to daily life, to the common people, from the child to the elderly. When the companies realized these, innovations in the market grew exponentially to make the technology as easy as possible to use, but we have reached the second decade of the 21st century and innovations seem to have stagnated, enter them into this time for companies a need to get as many technological devices as possible, especially cell phones, I do not know if they have noticed but practically every 6 months a new cell phone comes out, so there are so many people who still do not have a cell phone and the market is so open to launch this number of cell phones? Well, no, the market is not so open, companies launch so many cell phones because when they design a product like this, they think in the first instance in the "programmed obsolescence."
Let's all fight together against the "programmed obsolescence", do not feel pressured to spend more and more on technology that really is not worth it.
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