There's a fair bit of evidence that planned obsolescence was practiced in the bicycle industry before being adopted by General Motors, in the sense of annual de

There's a fair bit of evidence that planned obsolescence was practiced in the bicycle industry before being adopted by General Motors, in the sense of annual design and styling changes. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence#History> Citing: The most benevolent machine: a historical assessment of cycles in Canada, by Sharon Babaian, p. 97: <https://archive.org/details/mostbenevolentma0000baba/page/96/mode/2up?q=annual+model https://archive.org/details/mostbenevolentma0000baba/page/96...>