Green organizations and watchdogs criticize this move as creating waste without need. In the case of IT, software would be made obsolete and its users would be eventually move onto a new version.īut sometimes companies plan to force users to move onto new hardware and software without a good reason, at least from consumers’ point of view. There is no point providing continuing support for an outdated operating system that hardly anyone uses. In fact, it’s part of a natural process for a company-any asset management practice will account for end-of-lifing a product.
Planned obsolescence isn’t inherently bad news. Encouraging consumers to buy replacement products.At some point, the products will stop working optimally and customers get waning support for these products (and eventually no support at all).Ĭommon reasons for planned obsolescence include: Manufacturers and service vendors force updates that cause older models to become slow or unusable or stop producing the associated support. When a company creates a product, they can plan for it to become obsolete after a certain point. Use the right-hand menu to explore topics related to sustainable technology efforts.) What is planned obsolescence?
(This article is part of our Sustainable IT Guide.
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