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Designed for failure
Circus City. I think we’re all familiar with it unless you aren’t watching news for the past few years…
However, Circus City is just partially related to the topic that I am going to talk about today.
If you’re an Apple fan, or I am just assuming you’re all familiar with Apple, how many of you have ever considered of getting an extended warranty, which is what they called Apple Care? Whether you’ve gotten one in the past or thinking to get one of these for your product in the future, my suggestion is to try to avoid doing so.
Not because I was a big-time Apples fan, nor I was capable enough of getting one of those at the time (as you may know, Apple Care is ridicules pricy for no reason whatsoever). So yes, I personally purchased an Apple Care for my Macbook Pro for an insanely price $200, and that is almost one-forth of the price of my laptop.
Is there any particularly reason for me to do that? I guess it is all about the notion of being regretful, the sadness of being stupid I suppose.
Since not only the product life cycle is in general getting significant shorter as it was before, but also that electronic products’ price drop over time, therefore, what would be the best reason to convince ourselves to purchase an Apple Care and not getting a new product for almost the same value?
Why do they even come up with the saying of designed for the dump or designed for failure? There are two concepts of reasons that can support why this is happening.
Planned Obsolescence and Perceived Obsolescence are the main designed-concept for most of the major companies out there right now. I am not going to explain what the definition of the two. Theoretically, people are most likely influenced by the public voice in order to follow the most prevalent value, and yes, it is very sarcasm if you really think about it.
There is nothing wrong with the Apple Care, there is nothing we could say about the designed-concept, it is simply just what it is. Along with the improvement of the technology and the speed of the improvement, warranty is not as needed as it was.
What’s the impact of this? Think about Circus City.
-Moo
Circus City. I think we’re all familiar with it unless you aren’t watching news for the past few years…
However, Circus City is just partially related to the topic that I am going to talk about today.
If you’re an Apple fan, or I am just assuming you’re all familiar with Apple, how many of you have ever considered of getting an extended warranty, which is what they called Apple Care? Whether you’ve gotten one in the past or thinking to get one of these for your product in the future, my suggestion is to try to avoid doing so.
Not because I was a big-time Apples fan, nor I was capable enough of getting one of those at the time (as you may know, Apple Care is ridicules pricy for no reason whatsoever). So yes, I personally purchased an Apple Care for my Macbook Pro for an insanely price $200, and that is almost one-forth of the price of my laptop.
Is there any particularly reason for me to do that? I guess it is all about the notion of being regretful, the sadness of being stupid I suppose.
Since not only the product life cycle is in general getting significant shorter as it was before, but also that electronic products’ price drop over time, therefore, what would be the best reason to convince ourselves to purchase an Apple Care and not getting a new product for almost the same value?
Why do they even come up with the saying of designed for the dump or designed for failure? There are two concepts of reasons that can support why this is happening.
Planned Obsolescence and Perceived Obsolescence are the main designed-concept for most of the major companies out there right now. I am not going to explain what the definition of the two. Theoretically, people are most likely influenced by the public voice in order to follow the most prevalent value, and yes, it is very sarcasm if you really think about it.
There is nothing wrong with the Apple Care, there is nothing we could say about the designed-concept, it is simply just what it is. Along with the improvement of the technology and the speed of the improvement, warranty is not as needed as it was.
What’s the impact of this? Think about Circus City.
-Moo
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