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Planned obsolescence is a policy of planning or designing a product with an artificially limited useful life, So that it becomes obsolete after a certain pre-determined period of time upon which it suddenly ceases to function.

The rationale behind this strategy is to generate long-term sales volume by reducing the time between repeat purchases.

It is the deliberate shortening of a lifespan of a product to force people to purchase functional replacements.



Here is a example of Planned obsolescence implemented in programming.



This is simple Odd or Even Program. The program stops working after 5 successful execution(Irrespective of Session).