From: Sandra Hermann
Cars are going the way of computers! They are outdated before they are completely designed and make it to the assembly line. I know in 06 we were already designing the 2010 Ram.
It's always been that way with cars; for as long as I can remember. I was still in kindergarten the first time I heard the phrase "planned obsolescence".
It's an outgrowth of industrial mass production. Can't stay in business making & selling cars if the cars last forever. Someone has to buy new cars to keep the factories in operation.
With computers the cycle is mostly determined by the fact that every 18 months or so the number of transistors that can be jammed into a "chip" doubles. That means that every year and a half, you can get twice as much computing power for the same amount of money, or you can get the same amount of computing power for half as much money.
There does seem to be a lower limit to how much the price will drop. It seems like after two cycles the older technology just is no longer available.
And the "upgraded" "improved" versions of whatever software you're using won't run on the old systems anyway.
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