Question

Spacein, a hard drive manufacturer, is accused of deliberately creating flaws in its product design. News reports hint that the company has been doing this for years to reduce the time between consumer repurchases. In the context of social responsibility, Spacein has been accused of _____.

Answer 1

A. planned obsolescence

Step-by-step explanation:

Based on the scenario being described within the question it can be said that in this situation Spacein has been accused of planned obsolescence. This term refers to when a product is purposely designed to have a limited useful life , in which once that limit is hit the product no longer functions correctly and becomes obsolete. Which is exactly what SpaceIn is doing in order for their hard drives to fail after a set amount of time so that customers have to buy new hard drives from them.