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Built-in software ‘death dates’ are sending thousands of schools’ Chromebooks to the recycling bin(www.mercurynews.com)

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There are few things quite as emblematic of late stage capitalism than the concept of “planned obsolescence”.

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Ad campaigns, most likely. I always seem to see ads for Samsung phones, but not as often for Sony brand ones. I do agree Sony does a much better job about opening up the bootloader, versus Samsung punishing you for trying to open your own paid for device up.

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