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GCSE Design and Technology · key term
Deliberately designing a product to have a shorter useful or desirable life than it could otherwise have, encouraging its replacement.
Used by AQA
Paper 1
Revise: Critical evaluation of emerging technologiesPlanned obsolescence is deliberately limiting a product's useful or desirable life so that people replace it sooner than would otherwise be necessary.
Planned obsolescence can involve software support or changing styles, not just physical failure. Normal wear or a consumable being used up does not by itself prove deliberate obsolescence.
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