Planned Obsolescence Research Paper

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Planned obsolescence features in the design and manufacture of most everyday products. For a named product, describe the advantages and disadvantages of planned obsolescence to both the consumer and manufacturer. (12 marks)
Planned obsolescence is when a product is produced to have a certain life span, this is usually quite a short life span. The product is designed to last long enough to develop a customer’s lasting need. It is also designed to convince the customer that the product is of a high quality. So, when the product fails, the customer will want to buy a new and updated version. Planned obsolescence is a thing in every day products for big corporations such as apple to make more money. Apple will release a new product every year and …show more content…

An advantage of planned obsolescence within apple iPhone to the consumer is that they will be able to continue updating their phone and will be able to download all the apps they want. It also means that they will have a new and working phone and if the battery was dying off in their old phone they wouldn’t have to worry about it, but these advantages don’t really outweigh the disadvantages. Some disadvantages for the consumer is that they would be paying for an overpriced product every year, apple will convince some people to keep up to date with the newest iPhone just because they feel it would boost how they feel about themselves having the newest phone this called brand loyalty, when someone commits and wants to keep buying the same king of phone over and over. When one person has the newest iPhone someone who maybe has an iPhone one generation behind and could be peer pressured into purchasing the new one when their current one is in perfect working

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