20
Nov
iDiots short film
The following short film presents a pretty accurate representation of the planned obsolescence strategy (as well as general meaninglessness of 90% of the things we do with out smartphones) run by Apple and many other producers of digital technology.
In the video it is the failing hardware/software that drives obsolescence, in real life it is a combination of both not-built-to-last hardware / software and social pressure to ‘keep up with the Joneses’, so maybe, in the video, the the big grey robot should also brainwash (or infect with a particular kind of computer-virus) the red robots to represent this aspect of planned obsolescence.