Apple’s Business Ethics on certain products

One of the ethical problems i have seen with Apple in the past is the creation of planned obsolescence in their products.  Planned obsolescence in industrial design is a policy of planning or designing a product with an artificially limited useful life, so it will become obsolete  or no longer functional after a certain period of time. We can see this in a few of Apple’s products. One of the examples is the iPhone series, when newer versions of the Apple iPhone comes out, we often get an update to the software and firmware, maybe even new features and app that can be very useful to us. At the same time of release for the new iPhones, owners of the previous versions of the iPhones started to become more sluggish and slow. Lots of other users also had similar problems, one of the reasons is because the newer operating system being pushed out to existing users was making older models unbearably slow. This caused the not only the battery to be drained faster but older versions of the phone slowing down. As people become annoyed by the sluggish speed of their phones, they start to turn towards upgrades. This is unethical in terms of the business towards consumers, because they are pushing a product which has a shortened product lifetime then it should be having.

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