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August 7, 2009 at 3:20 pm
Ryan Cunningham
Excellent article. I like the idea of making companies accept their old products when new ones come out. I’d love to run into the CEO of Sony and shove all the old VHS players in his face and make him take them all apart and recycle the parts before he’s allowed to produce anymore DVD’s or Bluerays, or whatever the hell they’re selling now. Or the Verizon guys, producing cell phones that last a year and luring people into buying new ones. They should be forced to take back all the phones, chargers, headsets, etc. But there’s no money in that, and all those executives would be forced to have three vacation homes instead of four, or downsize their personal jets. Greed will eventually drown us all in piles of garbage.
August 12, 2009 at 2:52 pm
onlives
Thanks Ryan. You make some great points about planned obsolescence. It’s really what keeps the whole machine going. Great last line; that’s what I was getting at but didn’t sum it up quite as succinctly.