by Katherine Millsap
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| "Save space, save time, save money. No wait—not money.” |
Samsung announced their newest design of washing machines at
the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show- a top loading washing
machine with a build in sink on top.
The sink’s purpose is to allow consumers to pretreat their clothes in
the same machine they wash them in, intending to take out the (gasp) extremely
inconvenient and difficult task of pretreating stains in the sink and then
transferring them to the washing machine.
While this new feature may be attractive to many people willing and able
to spend nearly $1,200 on a washing machine, it begs a different question than
how neat or useful this new feature is, being: has Samsung developed an
interesting, innovative, and convenient feature on their new line of
machines? Or are they intentionally
adding features that will hasten the inevitable breakdown and replacement of
them? An average top-loading washing
machine is predicted to last between 11-14 years. However, with the added feature of the
build-in sink and all the moving parts that go with that, has Samsung just
lowered the time for replacement? As
with most machines and gadgets, the more moving parts there are the more
opportunities for repair and eventual replacement from repair fatigue on the
part of the consumer. While Samsung’s
built in sink is an interesting feature that may attract consumers, underneath
that Samsung is practicing Planned Obsolescence by intentionally adding a
feature that will be difficult or expensive to repair, therefore requiring
consumers to purchase a new machine sooner than the expected 11-14 years.
“Save
space, save time, save money. No wait—not money.”
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