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Designers and planned obsolescence with laptops

Planned obsolescence is a method a number of designers use to ensure that people continue to buy their products. One product that planned obsolescence is used in is laptops. The new software is often carefully calculated to reduce in value to consumers of the previous version. They do this by making programs upwardly compatible only, meaning the new versions are the only ones that can read all the files of the old version, but it doesnt work the other way around. Laptops also do not last for a long amount of time. Sooner or later the laptop’s quality will reduce and will begine to get slower and not function as well as it used to.

 

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    oliviaajarvis

    What are the implications of planned obsolescence? how does the constant disposal of laptops, and other products, contribute to the wellbeing of the envionment? are there toxins or other harmful chemicals in laptops that negatively impact the environment when they are thrown into garbage heaps?

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