Are your gadgets meant to last longer, and does the idea of planned obsolescence actually happen in today’s world of tech? Pickr joins 3AW to explain.
If you’ve ever thought that things used to last longer, you’re probably not alone. A fridge that lasted decades as opposed to merely years, and a phone that could keep you going for over seven years as opposed to barely getting close to that.
The idea of gadgets being designed to fail long before they should is one no company would ever talk about, but is it something that actually happens, and can you keep tech going?
Pickr’s Leigh Stark joins 3AW Mornings with Tom Elliott to talk whether planned obsolescence is something that happens, and whether you can keep using gadgets, appliances, and white-goods you own all the same.
