The concept of risk of on-orbit obsolescence has remained qualitative to date.
To be clear, the league is not secretly canceling the December schedule — the Los Angeles Lakers and the Chicago Bulls were assured of alternate nights to replace those they surrendered — but the decision to release those arena dates underscores the obsolescence of the published schedule.
One reason it was never developed was the preference for the most up-to-date information: a bias against obsolescence.
Are your skills up-to-date or do you face obsolescence?
Perhaps, then, planned obsolescence will begin to reach its own expiration date.
Keeping up with technology is a never-ending battle filled with unmet expectations, too few resources, and the need to constantly plan ahead realizing that the technology that you are implementing today is likely already dated and on the road to obsolescence.
Back in July, when attempting (and -- full disclosure -- failing) to predict the release date and features of the iPhone 5, I wrote about the special kind of obsolescence anxiety that Apple inspires in its customers.
His brand labels are just slightly faded, and they peel back to reveal characters contemplating their own obsolescence -- Hamlets of the shopping mall, pondering their mortality as if it were a sell-by date.
Such characteristics are important clues showing a fast moving of the US market from a capital equipment basis to a more mass-consumer approach characterized by fast innovations, quick obsolescence and consumer prone attitude to system rotation in order to have always the more up-to-date technology, product, probe available on the Market.
I feel sorry for them, and I appreciate them not taking out their looming obsolescence on the consumers, but that isn't going to change the fact that their business model is simply out of date.
