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Well if Google didn't bake planned obsolescence into every pixel phone and chromebook and coerce people to get new ones every two years that would actually do s
by CatWChainsaw 3y ago
Well if Google didn't bake planned obsolescence into every pixel phone and chromebook and coerce people to get new ones every two years that would actually do something laudable, but Google Wallet would cry so it's a no-go.
- wmf 3y agoPixel now has seven years of support and Chromebooks have ten years.
- CatWChainsaw 3y agoI was, in fact, aware of this! I just don't buy that Google would render this meaningless, and not even via /killedbygoogle. iPhones famously have this problem where they start to slow down whenever Apple decides it's time for you to buy a new device. I have no doubt that Google would cut engineering corners or employ every incrementalist trick in the book to still get the revenue of planned obsolescence while touting how sustainable the company is.