Because in this way they can continue to sell unsold inventory that has been left in a warehouse for 8 years
It’s Linux+Chrome and it should be supported indefinitely. Stopping sending chrome updates because marketing dept said so is not just being assholes but it’s a crime against the environment
also they say the packaging of the pixel watch is with less plastic. Yeah, the climate crisis is solved!!! Who cares then if you break its screen, they don’t offer any kind of repair, with the only option being disposal.
This is true, but this is also going to be a huge help to schools, many of which have spent a substantial amount of their meager budgets on Chromebooks. Expanding their lifetime is going to be a big deal in education.
Are Chromebooks lasting that long in the hands of students? In my experience they tend to be pretty rough on hardware, even if the software is hard to mess up.
All of them? Probably not. But probably enough that, at least in some schools, they can keep re-using them for 10 years. Elementary schoolers are pretty hard on them, but my daughter is in Middle School and she takes good care of her Chromebook. They must be either cheap to replace or don’t get replaced often, because the insurance for them, if you want to pay it, is only $20.
I think that this will likely help schools. Maybe not all schools, but some schools.
Because in this way they can continue to sell unsold inventory that has been left in a warehouse for 8 years
It’s Linux+Chrome and it should be supported indefinitely. Stopping sending chrome updates because marketing dept said so is not just being assholes but it’s a crime against the environment
But they don’t include chargers with their phones anymore, so they should be good, right?!
also they say the packaging of the pixel watch is with less plastic. Yeah, the climate crisis is solved!!! Who cares then if you break its screen, they don’t offer any kind of repair, with the only option being disposal.
This is true, but this is also going to be a huge help to schools, many of which have spent a substantial amount of their meager budgets on Chromebooks. Expanding their lifetime is going to be a big deal in education.
Are Chromebooks lasting that long in the hands of students? In my experience they tend to be pretty rough on hardware, even if the software is hard to mess up.
All of them? Probably not. But probably enough that, at least in some schools, they can keep re-using them for 10 years. Elementary schoolers are pretty hard on them, but my daughter is in Middle School and she takes good care of her Chromebook. They must be either cheap to replace or don’t get replaced often, because the insurance for them, if you want to pay it, is only $20.
I think that this will likely help schools. Maybe not all schools, but some schools.