Sentences with phrase «like obsolescence»

After all, that must be a typo given the current status of dodo - like obsolescence.

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The four critical factors are: (a) businesses with recurring revenue bases — like a renewable subscription — are far better than ones dependent on constantly securing new customers; renewals are much easier and less expensive to secure than new sales; (b) customer retention is absolutely critical — all customers are very costly to acquire and very easy to lose in a world of almost infinite choices; (c) businesses based on products that require constant replacement or renewal (the «razor blade» model) are much more attractive than durable goods businesses (like selling refrigerators) where the products have very long repurchase or replacement life cycles and where the market could even fairly quickly reach saturation points; and (d) businesses that offer products or services that had a predictably high rate of obsolescence were much more attractive than those where the products had long, useful lives.

Like in the past, new policy innovations are currently being explored to find new ways to deal with the social pressure resulting from the increasing obsolescence of manual labour, as can be seen in the experimenting with Universal Basic Income in Finland.

Angry librarians, who like the Postal Service face obsolescence as a result of the cyberspace revolution, argued that libraries are a better place for Internet links because they are open longer and their staff better able to provide help to users.

Fierce, honest and a challenge to the forces of obsolescence, Dirty Computer feels like a vital upgrade from a true renegade.

Like film direction, it's been democratized to the point of obsolescence.

Like Don Quixote tilting at windmills, Riggans is fighting against an invisible foe: obsolescence.

Blackberry have just confirmed to the world they are heading to obsolescence like Palm.

There are various percentage handicaps which are applied to the working capital figure (to account for obsolescence of inventory and uncollectability in receivables as well as the nebulous benefit of some other current assets like pre-paid insurance and rent) to arrive at the sum used to deduct liabilities from and arrive at the proper current asset figure used in the equation.

For those of you actually following the Amiibo «craze» (because why wouldn't you love having your child like love for a bunch of corporate icons exploited through planned scarcity and iterative obsolescence) you might have seen that an exclusive Palutena Amiibo was set to go on sale on Amazon's web site this evening at 2 pm, Read more about This is Just Fucking Ridiculous -LSB-...]

A three - part public sculpture in the Marshes of Glynn in Georgia, «Marsh Ruins» is, like Smithson's «Spiral Jetty,» a marvel of engineered obsolescence.

First cast in bronze and subsequently chrome - plated, Sarah Staton's Post-Pop Hamburger is cartoon - like in its simplicity, at once an object of real desire whilst, being hollow and lumpen in its demeanour, simultaneously displaying its inherent obsolescence.

Known for her extensive work stockpiling industrial materials into premeditated patterns, Hope's pieces incorporate profoundly complex ideas like numeracy, binary code, and planned obsolescence, as well as the inherent properties of the materials -LSB-...]

Perhaps no other medium is better suited than paper to explore urgent issues such as disposability and obsolescence: Proof are Ester Partegàs's «garbage can» into which one can throw papers listing things one doesn't like and Patrick Killoran's «watches» made to be worn and tossed out.

But, like I said, they are super-cautious (see «IPCC's Planned Obsolescence: Fifth Assessment Report Will Ignore Crucial Permafrost Carbon Feedback»).

As for the next generation of music technology, gear like the Sonos wireless music system may not have the Energy Star seal, but it does have built in power management, updatable firmware to combat obsolescence, and is ROHS compliant (the restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment).

Right now, the company just looks like it's kept this important function a secret in the name of earning more money through planned obsolescence, and that's not a good look for Apple.

It's clear that controversies like this — underpinned by conspiracy theories around planned obsolescence — sprout up because there is a lack of communication between device manufacturers like Apple and consumers.

I feel like my phone is very vulnerable to attacks and I think Samsung is planning obsolescence to this kind of phone.

Talk of a «planned obsolescence» strategy had re-emerged earlier this week, when benchmarking firm Geekbench waded into discussion about whether older devices — like the iPhone 6s, first released in 2015 — were having their processors artificially limited by iOS.

While watches like the LG G Watch and Samsung Gear Live were the market's guinea pigs, spurred by Google towards planned obsolescence, it was the release of the Moto 360 in September that opened peoples» eyes to the notion that beauty and smart function could live harmoniously.