Irony
The irony, here, it very likely the french who have invented planned obsolescence in the early 90s.
At the army, one buddy told me a senior engineer at the most successful french TV manufacturer told him they were designing the cathod tubes so they would stop working around 14-16 months, pas the 12 months of warranty and that he was not really proud of it ... Said company stopped the activity a dozen year later but they had a good financial ride since, back then, many french would buy only french and this was the only manufacturer.
Quite possibly, this was invented a lot earlier than this. A shame Apple is getting fined for a tiny loss of performance while others have deliberately sabotaged their products for YEARS.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
