I am particularly concerned by the eWaste implications of this kind of decision. At a time of a global semiconductor shortage (likely for 6+ months), it looks l

I am particularly concerned by the eWaste implications of this kind of decision. At a time of a global semiconductor shortage (likely for 6+ months), it looks like consumers will be left to deal with the fallout of these kinds of deals. If we normalise "deprecate that hardware as it lacks some logical software feature", that's bad for the environment, and bad for society in general. That's currently normalised though, so we have a long way to go to get this put right. It's a shame we're nearly full circle - we had fully programmable computers, now we need to add hardware codecs to them, in order to prevent those general purpose programmable computers from lasting too long (!)