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graceful degradation: the opposite of planned obsolescence (slrpnk.net)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It hits slightly different though.

For example graceful degradation could be considered when a device can have different components fail but the rest still work.

Progressive enhancement can be considered to be a device with basic functionality with optional add-ons.

It's basically about the base getting less functional, versus the baseline being upgraded. From a certain point of view they are the same thing but realistically they're not.

If I have a device with an optional add-on and I don't actually have that add-on installed, I wouldn't say the device is "degraded", even though technologically it probably doesn't make much difference.