The system was entrenched by the early 1980s, but it ran into problems of obsolescence.
The old Zulu traditions of strong marriages and healthy families had faded into obsolescence.
However, the window of opportunity created by the obsolescence of the iPhone 4 is closing.
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It is women, after all, who are hastening the table-pounding male bullies toward obsolescence.
They say that the rapid obsolescence of technology has created a phenomenon of instant nostalgia.
He singled out technical obsolescence as his single-best source of short-selling ideas over the last 10 years.
Just entirely normal obsolescence: the new products contain workarounds of most if not all of the Apple patents.
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Manufacturers were less concerned with making cars more aerodynamic than with streamlining time, picking up the pace of obsolescence.
While the future of Microsoft's mobile platform looks incredibly bright, a purchase now would guarantee obsolescence in the short-term.
For a business with a fragile business model, sending a suggestion of your own obsolescence is a dangerous idea.
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His company faced not only a relentless competitor in Intel but also potential obsolescence of its mainstream graphics business.
The guilt in this guilty pleasure came from suspecting, in part, that you were clicking your way to your own obsolescence.
So far, consumers have been reluctant to embrace digital imaging, mainly because of operational complexity, built-in obsolescence and low image quality.
Another part of planned obsolescence is when the products you buy are designed to fail after a certain amount of time.
Or are you inadvertently creating your own obsolescence by failing to negotiate?
Growth prevents irrelevance and obsolescence, growth affords opportunity, growth attracts and retains talent, and growth is the most certain path to sustainability.
That could put them at risk of obsolescence, similar to the way dot-com era Internet Malls were quickly leapfrogged by eBay and Amazon.com.
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Most of what has been produced has been lost due to the ravages of time, ignorance of its value, chemical decay and technological obsolescence.
While many have criticized her decision because it disproportionately affects working mothers, others believe it may save the struggling tech company from obsolescence.
It is the only company of its kind that still manufactures its own motors, ensuring that this is not a modern piece of planned obsolescence.
My second theory has to do with our experience of obsolescence.
Too much of the world's 20th century audiovisual heritage is now lost, and much more is slipping beyond recovery because of neglect, natural decay and technological obsolescence.
And similarly, Facebook's lost luster doesn't necessarily foreshadow its obsolescence.
Other products, however, continued their slow decent towards potential obsolescence.
This equipment loses value rapidly through obsolescence, and the US semiconductor industry periodically debates with the US government that tax laws should be changed to allow faster depreciation rates.
But a new kind of planned obsolescence has already come in the form of quieter or more beautiful, or meeting a style need, or thinner or lighter or more elegant.
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Meeting that rigorous standard has been made more all-the-more challenging by the concomitant exodus of the skilled workforce and the increasing obsolescence and unsustainability of the industrial complex it mans.
So the question is, do more or fewer than 300, 000 houses per year fall out of the stock because of age, obsolescence, or simply because they are in the wrong place?
Or, market leaders could follow the well-trodden path to obsolescence, like Ames Department Stores, Woolworths, Digital Equipment, Wang Laboratories, Kodak, Motorola, Blockbuster, Borders, Tower Records, and numerous other one-time market leaders.
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But even without this planned obsolescence, computers get tired.
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