Appliance manufacturers build products with intentionally limited lifespans, forcing consumers to throw away old products and continually buy new ones. Source
Verdict The same phenomenon is listed again within two editions under a new name (D33 ). Continued as ftsg-tech-trends-2022-287
A trend is graded on whether the publisher keeps it, never as a hit or a miss (D6 , D33 ).
All captured fields
rank 246
section Home Automation & Consumer Electronics
subject Forced Obsolescence
years on list 5TH YEAR ON THE LIST
page 248
confidence high Permalink
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Hindsight, claim ftsg-tech-trends-2021-246, renamed as of 2026-10-03. Envisioning. https://www.envisioning.com/hindsight/claims/ftsg-tech-trends-2021-246
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