• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    While I see the point they’re trying to make, what this person is actually saying is complete nonsense.

    Graceful degradation is not the opposite of planned obsolescence they’re two completely different concepts with nothing to do with each other.

    Graceful degradation is where a product degrades in such a way as to maintain at least some functionality for as long as possible.

    Planned obsolescence is where an item is intentionally designed to fail in order to get you to buy the next version.

    Completely different concepts.

    The actual opposite of graceful degradation, is progressive enhancement.

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      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.

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        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.