▲ 3 ▼ Built-in software ‘death dates’ are sending thousands of schools’ Chromebooks to the recycling bin (www.mercurynews.com) submitted 3 years ago by UngodlyAudrey@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org 29 comments fedilink hide all child comments There are few things quite as emblematic of late stage capitalism than the concept of "planned obsolescence".
[–] sirjash@feddit.de 1 point 3 years ago I think the more probable reason is that EU regulators were unhappy with this for a long time and have now put 3 years of OS updates and 5 years of security updates into law. Low cost Android manufacturers don't care what Apple does. permalink fedilink source parent