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Stay Free! Daily offers this amazing interview about obsolescence, design, and our relationship to our stuff.
STAY FREE!: Business people in the 1920s and up through the 1950s talked openly about planned obsolescence in trade publications. Are they less likely to talk about it now?GILES SLADE: They call it different things now: "death dating" or "product lifespan." It's an established strategy. When a junior industrial designer is assigned to a work site and tasked with designing a product, one of the first questions is: How long is this thing going to last? How long does the competition last? How long is the warranty? This kind of planning is common knowledge among design teams.
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Maybe I'm missing the point. What about the iPod is "made to break"?
they may not be "made to break" but from my experience they certainly aren't made to be repaired. so when they do break, it is often easier/cheaper to purchase a replacement than fix the problem.
"I might as well put a turban on and grow a long beard."
and what, precisely, is that supposed to mean?
What? The old generation did not have an "iconic" relationship with ther Rolex and BMW? Get serious...
Lee, I'm guessing you didn't actually read the interview?
He talks specifically about the battery life issue, the vulnerability to scratches, the statements from Apple about the expected life span of the product, and the problems with the screens.
J - I think he's describing a caricature of a guru, rather than drawing a racist stereotype. But that's my opinion - what do you think?
Glad I'm not the only one that fantasize about this "theory."
I think he is saying "Criticizing the iPod gets me treated by the Cult of Apple like I was Osama Bin Laden."
Charles, I think that's a good way of putting it. Better than what he said, and ends up as a sort of funny mixed metaphor!
its just the worst theory of this generation