• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    That said, it makes Google a hell of a lot more money if you keep buying new watches than if they have to keep repairing the old ones.

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      1 year ago

      That’s the logic behind every one of those decisions that made things harder to repair. The only fix really is government intervention, because capitalist logic by itself dictates that this is how you make more profit.

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        1 year ago

        I know a couple of people who got them and swore by them. I didn’t realize they still were compatible with modern phones.