Products of all types cars, incandescent bulbs, your iPad and iPhone are designed with planned obsolescence in mind.

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Another part of planned obsolescence is when the products you buy are designed to fail after a certain amount of time.

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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.

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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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But even without this planned obsolescence, computers get tired.

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