Sally Helm
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385 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 30 Jul
Sally Helm’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Giles Slade says that the last part of the psychology in psychological obsolescence has to do with something that marketers and advertising writers began doing in the 1920s.
Selling products based on pride and shame.
I mean, I get that.
Like, a new car was something you could be proud of.
You'd want to drive down the street in it.
And an old beat-up one was something that, you know, you might be a little bit ashamed of.
Yeah, that's exactly it.
And Sloan takes these new ideas from advertising and builds those psychological triggers into the products themselves.
He makes each new car more desirable than the last.
The iPhone.
We have arrived at the iPhone.
So, okay, Rand, Ramteen, when I tell someone that I'm doing a story about planned obsolescence, they almost always say, oh, a story about the iPhone.
So let's talk about it.
The battery thing.
So, okay, maybe you heard about this.
There's sort of this conspiracy theory, this controversy.
In 2017, iPhone users were noticing that after they had updated their software, their phones started to slow down, which is frustrating.
Like, an update is supposed to make your phone better, and some people felt like it was making the phone worse.
So people started yelling at Apple about this.
And Apple said, whoa, whoa, whoa, no.
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