devices such as the laundry room or the kitchen keep getting shorter. This is reflected in the interim results of a long-term study of the Federal Environment Agency (UBA), with the authority wants to find out whether manufacturers shorten the shelf life of products targeted. Such evidence would have been found not true. However, this issue was also investigated only in the second part of the so-called obsolescence study.
“We can say that more waxing machines, refrigerators and dryers are defective within five years than it was ten years ago,” said the UBA. To replace consumer devices such obviously much faster than a few years ago: From 2004 to 2012/2013, the Erstnutzungsdauer of washing machines, dryers and refrigerators reduced by one year to an average of 13 years, the UBA brings the previous study results to the point.
where one third of consumers have just replaced a working device of this product divisions against a better one. At least two-thirds had so bought a new, because the old one was broken.
Do you feel manufacturers to build targeted vulnerabilities in their devices?
Older TVs soft modern
Using flat TVs, consumers would have their devices in 2012 after an average of 5.6 years replaced. 60 percent of which were not justified by defects, but to create a more modern device. Compared to Erstnutzungsdauer a tube TV that had lain 2005-2012 between ten and twelve years, this value was thus but significantly reduced in modern television supervisors.
Almost remained roughly equal to the study finds that the Erstnutzungsdauer of notebooks. Tap between five and six years and surf the consumer with their device. The reasons for the exchange have, however, changed dramatically: While in 2004 only 70 percent of the functional units replaced due to a technical innovation and the desire for a better notebook, this is 2012/2013 have been “only around a quarter of cases” so, it says.
Examination to targeted vulnerabilities follows
The interim report is based primarily on the results of consumer surveys representative of the Association for Consumer Research. Based on the interim results still did not find evidence that manufacturers internals “selective” vulnerabilities in their products, they say.
“When using electrical and electronic equipment is a very complex picture. That gives devices are used shorter, has a variety of causes,” said UBA President Maria Krautzberger. “The extent to which a scheduled wear is responsible clarify is now in the second half of the study.” In any case, should the strategies to prolong the useful life of equipment submitted both to the manufacturer and to the consumer.
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