▲ 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".
[–] meyotch@slrpnk.net 0 points 3 years ago 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. permalink fedilink source parent