Enforced Obsolescence


a more heavy-handed version of planned obsolescence usually employed in the high-tech industry, especially software. consumers of a product are forced to upgrade through some new technology rendering an old one literally unusable, usually through unnecessary incompatibility issues.
porting a game from the 360 to the pc, rewritten to require dx10 when dx9 was used originally and clearly runs the game, can only be enforced obsolescence.

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