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> landfills in the 3rd world will be inundated by more hardware which could be still perfectly useable if its life didn't depend on the wishes of a single compa
by craftyguy 9y ago
> landfills in the 3rd world will be inundated by more hardware which could be still perfectly useable if its life didn't depend on the wishes of a single company.
Well that's a silly comment, because by choosing not to make more then there would actually be fewer kinects in landfills than if they had decided to continue manufacturing. The decision to "build more" has absolutely nothing to do with folks deciding to throw away the ones they've already bought.
- mostlyskeptical 9y agoI can even see merit to the argument that cutting off new supply will force people to recycle old supply to repair and keep their sensors running as well. I know I've got a few that I'll have to keep working.
- squarefoot 9y agoI wasn't comparing the pollution of more products vs less products, but rather the pollution of the same number of products after they're forced to become obsolete (years before their technology becomes eventually) by patents and their closed nature which prevents anyone to properly support/use them forcing people to throw them away.