Disposability=Bad Design

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1. Disposability=Bad Design
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   July 14th, 2008 at 2:19 pm

   [...] psfk.com wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt Influx Insights has a great thought piece questioning the relevancy of disposability as a brand value or design element. The discussion was sparked by Bic’s announcement of a new disposable cell phone (!?). This idea of creating products with an extremely limited life cycle, or made in a way that doesn’t allow for easy recycling seems hopelessly dated and out of touch with current realities. Influx Insights: Bic and the irresponsibility of disposability [...]
2. Ashes to ashes and plastic forever
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   July 15th, 2008 at 8:04 am

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3. JC Francois
   Posted from: 62.235.205.11

   July 17th, 2008 at 7:30 am

   Hold on.

   If you read the product description in French you realize that the BIC phone is not a disposable phone. it is “ready to go” (i.e. battery fully charged and loaded with credits for 60 mins of calls) but it can be recharged and reloaded.

   It is just a low end phone with the most basic features (i.e. making calls).

   BIC have 2 major brand attributes: disposability and low cost. It is the latter that they want to leverage here, not the former.

   /~jc
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