Definition of "planned obsolescence" []

• A policy of deliberately planning or designing a product with a limited useful life, so it will become obsolete or nonfunctional after a certain period. (noun)

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• "The planned obsolescence that customers find frustrating in home-computer upgrades is something we must avoid in exhibition."
• "In his 1960 book The Waste Makers one of my all time favorite reads, social critic Vance Packard documents the early debates about planned obsolescence in consumer products in the 1950s and 60s."
• "Interest rates rose, creating acute cash-flow problems which the corporations met by quality-destroying expedients such as planned obsolescence and the debauchery of brand names."