UngodlyAudrey🏳️⚧️@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.org · 1 year agoBuilt-in software ‘death dates’ are sending thousands of schools’ Chromebooks to the recycling binwww.mercurynews.comexternal-linkmessage-square301fedilinkarrow-up1675arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: latestagecapitalism@lemmygrad.ml
arrow-up1675arrow-down1external-linkBuilt-in software ‘death dates’ are sending thousands of schools’ Chromebooks to the recycling binwww.mercurynews.comUngodlyAudrey🏳️⚧️@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.org · 1 year agomessage-square301fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: latestagecapitalism@lemmygrad.ml
There are few things quite as emblematic of late stage capitalism than the concept of “planned obsolescence”.
minus-squaremeyotch@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoThat’s a product that hasn’t had an Apple update since 2014. What realistically do you expect hardware manufacturers to do with actually old hardware? Lose money supporting it forever? This is kind of the opposite case from the chromebooks.
That’s a product that hasn’t had an Apple update since 2014. What realistically do you expect hardware manufacturers to do with actually old hardware? Lose money supporting it forever? This is kind of the opposite case from the chromebooks.