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applegrove

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13. Of course it costs more to recover a couch than it does to buy a new one too. That being

Reply to rdubwiley (Reply #11)

Fri Apr 27, 2012, 08:29 PM

Apr 2012

said there is something called the Color Lobby. They decide what the popular colours are going to be for appliances, cars and household furnishings and clothes. Then the industry makes and sells items in those colours. Creating a temporary market that then shortens the life of an object because it will be out of style soon.

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Why Apple Makes Profits from Electronics that Break (Planned Obsolescence) [View all] rdubwiley Apr 2012 OP

Most companies do this. Do you know what the term louis-t Apr 2012 #1

What are you talking about? NWHarkness Apr 2012 #2

They are good products rdubwiley Apr 2012 #4

Agreed Sherman A1 Apr 2012 #6

yea, tell that to my 10 year old lap top Merlot Apr 2012 #18

That's interesting rdubwiley Apr 2012 #19

Well, yes, there are limits to the older laptops Merlot Apr 2012 #23

The problem is... rdubwiley Apr 2012 #24

Your iPad breaks so much because you break it. RevStPatrick Apr 2012 #3

That's true rdubwiley Apr 2012 #5

One biggie though! longship Apr 2012 #7

I actually like the internal batteries rdubwiley Apr 2012 #8

That is not what I was talking about longship Apr 2012 #9

So rdubwiley Apr 2012 #25

Not a furnished battery, a refurbished device longship Apr 2012 #26

that would be an example of planned obsolescence rdubwiley Apr 2012 #27

Bing, Bing, Bing, Bing, Bing! longship Apr 2012 #28

I had a couch from my grandmother in the late 1990s that she probably bought in the 1930s. It was applegrove Apr 2012 #10

Yeah rdubwiley Apr 2012 #11

Of course it costs more to recover a couch than it does to buy a new one too. That being applegrove Apr 2012 #13

That's interesting rdubwiley Apr 2012 #21

The decision is easy! DemzRock Apr 2012 #12

Actually rdubwiley Apr 2012 #15

The new ''light bulb conspriacy.'' DeSwiss Apr 2012 #14

Strangely rdubwiley Apr 2012 #16

I sort of favor it..... DeSwiss Apr 2012 #17

Actually rdubwiley Apr 2012 #20

True. However..... DeSwiss Apr 2012 #22