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In times of climate change debate I think Apple is doing the wrong thing here, encouraging buy and throw away mentality increasing waste.
by colund 11y ago
In times of climate change debate I think Apple is doing the wrong thing here, encouraging buy and throw away mentality increasing waste.
- danielvf 11y agoWe definitely need a strong reduction in the introduction of new technology that replaces old, still working hardware. This is so wasteful. Along with this, we need centrally planned production of consumer goods to control the pace of change and prevent overproduction, and these goods need to be have government set prices to insure that everyone can afford them.
- wooter 11y agoBecause the USSR had no pollution or poor people... /s
- zepto 11y agoYou clearly didn't watch the keynote, since a significant part of it was about unprecedented programs to reuse and recycle their hardware.
- ams6110 11y agoRecycling can be a net environmental negative, plus you still have the environmental impact of creating the replacement unit. Not replacing something that still works is way better than replacing it even if you recycle the old unit.
- zepto 11y agoThat's why Apple prioritizes reuse over recycling.
- whitegrape 11y agoThe phrase "reduce reuse recycle" is actually a pyramid of effectiveness. The best thing is to reduce your consumption entirely, which in this case translates to not producing or buying new hardware you don't need.
- logfromblammo 11y agoI split "reuse" into "repair" and "repurpose", so that I can put "repair" before "reduce". I think a product designed to be repairable indefinitely is less wasteful than one that has half as much mass but needs to be completely recycled whenever any critical part fails. I would dearly love to have a standard laptop form factor, even if means cases would be 5cm thick when closed and 2kg without its innards. If there were a laptop case standard, it would be a whole lot easier to manage repair parts and 3rd party upgrades.
- Pengwin 11y agoIve had that exact same feeling since my iPad 1's life was effectively ended by software updates. It was the quickest device to become obsolete I've ever owned.
- some-guy 11y agoI inherited one after never owning a tablet. I was able to turn it into a Plex video-viewing device after jailbreaking and figuring out what the latest supported version of Plex is and it works great for that. Of course for web browsing in general it's pretty unusable.
- kalleboo 11y agoAs someone who had to develop for that thing - it was underpowered from day 1. iPhone 3GS hardware with 5x the number of pixels to push and higher expectations on software capability? It was never going to work.
- Pengwin 11y agoI somewhat agree with you about its specs, However when it came out of the box it was a smooth and snappy tablet.