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graceful degradation: the opposite of planned obsolescence (slrpnk.net)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Cool. Very cool. But this nothing to do with planned obsolescence.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

Not this particular example, maybe, but the concept of a device remaining usable in failure runs counter to planned obsolescence.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What do you mean "nothing to do with"? The title literally says "the opposite of planned obsolescence", which is planning the failure of a device. This is showing the planned continued use of a device when parts of it fails.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Planned obsolescence is taking steps to ensure the device fails.

But if I have a device that requires four batteries to function and one of them fails and this causes the device to stop working, that's not planned obsolescence, it's just not graceful degradation. It isn't planned obsolescence because the device isn't useless, I just need to put some new batteries in.