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"Hey everyone, we found an upgrade to planned obsolescence: we call it planned obsolescence 2.0. Instead of designing hardware to break and require replacing after a few years, we'll design the software to break every month! We'll say it's an upgrade. It'll reduce our material costs and we can pass those savings on to the shareholder."