Quote Originally Posted by G0ldBr1ck View Post
Alfred Slone who was the CEO of General Motors in 1941 put the theory of "Planned Obsolesce" into there production and have used it ever since. The rest of the industry followed shortly after. This is just one well known example. look it up

I think he used the term "built in obsolesce" tho.
I still have a problem with the terme cause it lables all technological advancements as "planned obsolescence".

If we stick to car analogies, a fine example is ABS... ABS tech was already there since the 1930ies but took almost 40 year to bring them to the point where they were usfull and usable in cars... so does that mean that all cars sold after 1930 where already planed to be obsolent by the companies, cause the tech was already there?

Same could be said for saftyblets, crumple zones, ESC and much more.

For myself i call this innovation, theres a new product with new technology that weren't available when the old product was build and leads to obsolesce of the old product.