When I work at Google, a fancy VP of hardware needed IT help. While I was helping him, I complained about my $900 Pixel 2, and joked that it'll be a paper wait

When I work at Google, a fancy VP of hardware needed IT help. While I was helping him, I complained about my $900 Pixel 2, and joked that it'll be a paper wait in 3 years because of engineered obsolescence. He told me to stop talking like that, said it wasn't funny at all. Dude knew I was onto something. Google acts like they are all carbon neutral, but they ship out devices that they kill in less than 3 years. I had a perfectly fine Acer with an intel and Nvidia chip in it, Google artificially deprecates it and I can't get updates anymore. I couldn't even get the Android app update on it. A $500 laptop turned into a paperweight in less than 2 years. We should have higher standards and we should hold hardware makers to them. They shouldn't be allowed to rip us off on a schedule, and basically put us on a subscription to buy new ones every 2 to 3 years.