Sentence examples for programmed obsolescence from inspiring English sources

AFP cites a judicial source stating that the Paris prosecutor's office of the Directorate General of Competition, Consumption and Repression of Frauds opened a preliminary investigation against Apple on January 5, for "programmed obsolescence" and "deception".

AFP cites a judicial source stating that the Paris prosecutor's office of the Directorate General of Competition, Consumption and Repression of Frauds opened a preliminary investigation against Apple on January 5, for "programmed obsolescence" and "deception".

Parliament wants to promote a longer product lifespan, in particular by tackling programmed obsolescence for tangible goods and for software.

Programmed obsolescence is illegal in France under a 2015 law which prohibits "the use of techniques by which the person responsible for the marketing of a product aims to deliberately reduce the duration to increase the replacement rate ".

A 2015 law made programmed obsolescence illegal in the country.

In its campaigning against programmed obsolescence, the HOP group also calls generally for greater transparency from companies and for software updates to be reversible, as well as urging smartphone makers to offer devices with removable batteries.

Ketzal finds it ridiculous that we are capable of producing technology capable of lasting a lifetime, but that the obsolescence essentially programmed into products as a marketing tool keeps us forever buying new phones, speakers, computers.

There's no "upgrade treadmill" of popular programs falling into obsolescence through incompatibilities or hobbling of programs, both of which can cause many problems aside from expense.

Consequently, programming a car to work only with Web-connected applications that are popular during the design stage is nearly certain to assure rapid obsolescence, said Robert Acker, vice president of Aha Radio, a maker of automotive and location-based applications that is owned by Harman International.

"ICT used to focus purely on computer literacy – teaching pupils, over and over again, how to word-process, how to work a spreadsheet, how to use programs already creaking into obsolescence; about as much use as teaching children to send a telex or travel in a zeppelin.

So I felt a postdoc program would delay the obsolescence of our R&D people.