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Gamification. Thanks for your interest. Planned obsolescence. For an industry, planned obsolescence stimulates demand by encouraging purchasers to buy sooner if they still want a functioning product.

Planned obsolescence

There is however the potential backlash of consumers who learn that the manufacturer invested money to make the product obsolete faster; such consumers might turn to a producer (if any exists) that offers a more durable alternative. Estimates of planned obsolescence can influence a company's decisions about product engineering. Therefore, the company can use the least expensive components that satisfy product lifetime projections. Such decisions are part of a broader discipline known as value engineering. [citation needed] Creative COW - Creative Communities of the World. Android Dev. Mitch Resnick: Let's teach kids to code. Imagine, program, share. Learn to code. Stack Overflow.

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