obsolescence

Perhaps we should call obsolescence over time as the market changes as natural obsolescence?

By the 70s, a lot of the original 50s system was removed for obsolescence with no full replacement.

One reason it was never developed was the preference for the most up-to-date information: a bias against obsolescence.

How can you tell that it was planned obsolescence and not just lowering the quality to lower prices?

Only problem with this is that now mains wiring is going to be part of the obsolescence cycle.

That's not so much another way of looking at it as what forced obsolescence is by definition.

Planned obsolescence through sabotaging a product (or at least its quality) is a universally bad thing in my opinion.

What systems can you point to where the power cost over the time-to-obsolescence exceeds capital cost?

Planed obsolescence and similar repulsive concepts are products of shallow minds and unchecked human flaws.

It sounds like you are actually lamenting the obsolescence of NAT- which you can still have on IPv6 if you really wanted.

However, unlike the decisions that eventually led to Detroit’s downfall, planned obsolescence is a good thing for both consumers and hardware vendors alike.

Now, anecdotally, I think that I've witnessed planned obsolescence of a sort, in some kinds of products.

Forced obsolescence with legal lockout when attempting to "repair" the device.

No longer are engineers required to "Do the most from the least", They are conditioned to build in obsolescence in their code by requiring that the users buy better hardware in order to accommodate the grandiose theoretical marvels.