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Surprisingly, I don't think I have heard of this term before today.
Planned Obsolescence.
It sounds cool, but the definition reveals its true dirty nature.
So anybody who is knowledgeable about the computer industry and how companies operate in regards to planning to make their products obsolete in order to rake in even more money, able to tell me just how rampant this practice is in the industry that provides us all of our computer parts?
I'm especially interested in this, because I have had issues with my video cards. ATI cards in particular. Every single ATI card I have ever purchased, with exception of my latest and greatest one, has failed on me. And not only have they failed on me, they failed on my consistently.
We have purchased three ATI Radeon 9800 pro's... and they all failed within a couple months of each other.
My x1950 pro I think, was just a faulty card from a faulty line, and didn't operate well from the beginning, and I just hadn't realized it until it started completely crapping out.
Do I have to start worrying that any time my computer parts fail, that it's not necessarily just an unexpected freak incident failure, but rather a planned, choreographed failure to make me buy another product again? Monitors, hard drives, processors, video cards, computer mice(I have a gigantically huge problem with computer mice failing).
Admittedly, I haven't had much experience with most of my other computer parts failing other than the video cards... but that doesn't mean it won't change. And it doesn't mean it won't be rampant in other products in other electronics industries.
Hardware is almost by definition always facing obsoletion due to better technology coming out from research and development. Companies should use this as a means to drive their revenue, not the dirty strategy of planned obsolescence. Products should simply age, with new better products out there that people are enticed to buy. They shouldn't simply cease functioning by design. That's terrible.
I have an Nvidia Geforce 3. Every time my ATI cards have failed on me, I have fallen back to that Geforce 3 in order to still use my computer. It doesn't run things well, but it still runs. It's still incredibly durable after all these years.
EDIT: Found this article... reading it now. May be interesting... if a bit old.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/471548/computers_the_poster_children_of_planned.html?cat=15
Planned Obsolescence.
It sounds cool, but the definition reveals its true dirty nature.
So anybody who is knowledgeable about the computer industry and how companies operate in regards to planning to make their products obsolete in order to rake in even more money, able to tell me just how rampant this practice is in the industry that provides us all of our computer parts?
I'm especially interested in this, because I have had issues with my video cards. ATI cards in particular. Every single ATI card I have ever purchased, with exception of my latest and greatest one, has failed on me. And not only have they failed on me, they failed on my consistently.
We have purchased three ATI Radeon 9800 pro's... and they all failed within a couple months of each other.
My x1950 pro I think, was just a faulty card from a faulty line, and didn't operate well from the beginning, and I just hadn't realized it until it started completely crapping out.
Do I have to start worrying that any time my computer parts fail, that it's not necessarily just an unexpected freak incident failure, but rather a planned, choreographed failure to make me buy another product again? Monitors, hard drives, processors, video cards, computer mice(I have a gigantically huge problem with computer mice failing).
Admittedly, I haven't had much experience with most of my other computer parts failing other than the video cards... but that doesn't mean it won't change. And it doesn't mean it won't be rampant in other products in other electronics industries.
Hardware is almost by definition always facing obsoletion due to better technology coming out from research and development. Companies should use this as a means to drive their revenue, not the dirty strategy of planned obsolescence. Products should simply age, with new better products out there that people are enticed to buy. They shouldn't simply cease functioning by design. That's terrible.
I have an Nvidia Geforce 3. Every time my ATI cards have failed on me, I have fallen back to that Geforce 3 in order to still use my computer. It doesn't run things well, but it still runs. It's still incredibly durable after all these years.
EDIT: Found this article... reading it now. May be interesting... if a bit old.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/471548/computers_the_poster_children_of_planned.html?cat=15