Planned Obsolescence

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Planned Obsolescence

a tactic by which a manufacturer deliberately seeks to make earlier versions of its product appear undesirable in the eyes of consumers who have purchased them in order to expand the market for later versions by improving the characteristics of later versions or by altering consumers' perceptions of the desirability of the models they have already purchased.

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