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Planned Obscolesence as Fragility

Bernie Goldbach - Jan 4, 2019 What’s your current watch? I’m burning through Suunto watch bands probably because I swim with my Ambit. The Suunto Spartan Wrist HR Baro and the Apple Watch Series 4. Sometimes I wear both.

Planned Obscolesence as Fragility

I want to discuss Planned obsolescence as fragility. In the days of Nokia you could buy a phone and give it to a teenage boy and expect it to survive without breaking. I know because I was a teenage boy with a Nokia phone. So were plenty of my peers. It was more likely that someone would lose or drown their phone than break it. I only broke one phone display in those days and that took some effort.