IN CONTEXT
Maintaining sales
1924–39 Lightbulb makers Osram, Phillips, and General Electric form a cartel, working together to prevent any product development that would produce lightbulbs that could burn for more than 1,000 hours.
1932 Bernard London writes a leaflet titled Ending the Depression through Planned Obsolescence, urging the UK government to pass laws to limit the useful lives of products to increase demand.
1959 Volkswagen uses the tagline: “We do not believe in planned obsolescence, we don’t change a car for the sake of change,” to criticize rival car manufacturers who allegedly did not build cars to last.
2013 Apple declares ...
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