• MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Facebook market place in my small town has dozens of these for less than $20. Why don’t you pick up a few of these and recycle our current supply instead of asking companies to produce more e waste incase we someday want to buy it.

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      5 months ago

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

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        5 months ago

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

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          5 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.

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            5 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.

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              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.