Another device heads to the Google graveyard.
  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.worldEnglish
    81·
    4 months ago

    The large used market exists because Google has been producing them. When Google stops producing them, that supply will dry up.

    • MeatsOfRage@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      4 months ago

      Lucky you, this is the perfect time to snatch up all the ones you say you need on the cheap.

      • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        4 months ago

        I’m not going to buy something I don’t need right now. Especially when my buying it is denying it to someone else who wants it.

        • MeatsOfRage@lemmy.worldEnglish
          12·
          4 months ago

          Ok so just so we’re clear, you want Google to keep mass producing e waste that you and most of the world aren’t buying right now just in case someday you might want to buy another.

          • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.worldEnglish
            41·
            4 months ago

            They can reduce production to meet demand. Kickstarter and retro consoles have shown you can produce very small production runs at a profit.

            But Google’s attitude with all products whether software or hardware is that if it isn’t a monopoly market share product, they cancel it.