Are Apple Products Designed to Fail?
December 26, 2025
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as posted by the channelIn 1924, the heads of the major lightbulb companies got together to make lightbulbs worse.
Their bulbs were lasting too long, so people weren't buying enough. At least, according to them.
So they cut bulb life from 2000 hours to 1000 hours — inventing planned obsolescence.
Now a growing number of customers and experts are concerned that Apple is carrying on the tradition, and using their updates to make your phone obsolete.
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