If you design a product that lasts forever and you intend to build a business around that product—you want to sustain production of it, but also want to pay your own bills, your employees' paychecks, and other such expenses—you quickly run into a numbers problem in terms of available customers; there are only so many people on the planet, and far fewer who will be in the demographic that wants or needs what you’re selling.
Planned Obsolescence
Planned Obsolescence
Planned Obsolescence
If you design a product that lasts forever and you intend to build a business around that product—you want to sustain production of it, but also want to pay your own bills, your employees' paychecks, and other such expenses—you quickly run into a numbers problem in terms of available customers; there are only so many people on the planet, and far fewer who will be in the demographic that wants or needs what you’re selling.