Worse On Purpose: The Corporate Gutting of Trusted Brands
An investigation into how corporate greed and buyouts deliberately ruin the quality of trusted brands and products.
Planned Obsolescence
The practice of designing products with a limited useful life or restricted functionality to encourage replacement and hardware upgrades.
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Kindle's Forced Obsolescence: A Recipe for Piracy and Lost Sales
By disabling downloads on older Kindles, Amazon is sacrificing long-term book sales and customer loyalty for short-sighted hardware upgrade pressure.