Any color the customer wants as long as it’s “almond,” “harvest gold,” or “avocado.”
2025 appliances: Sorry the company went out of business and the OS has DRM that needs to authenticate with the company servers that don’t exist anymore.
2026 appliances: It looks like you’re trying to store Skibidi brand ice cream, unfortunately, that is out of our food brand network. This fridge will self destruct in five seconds.
2027 appliances: Tired of your fridge self destructing when you put the wrong food in it? For a subscription of $29.99 a month, we’ll ship you a supply of single-use chemical ice packs that you can just throw in the ocean when they wear off!
planned obsolescence go brrrr
Survivorship bias
Not saying that planned obsolescence isn’t a thing, but yeah the remaining appliances from decades ago are not completely representative of how reliable they were when new.
I am your choice of avocado or baby vomit green.
