I maintain that governments should require any company that bricks a device via software should ALSO foot the bill of recycling it, if not more bbc.com/news/technology-5358…

Google offers refunds after smart glasses stop working

The North Focals smart glasses will lose all special features, but customers will get refunds.

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The cost of that has to be collected ahead of time, though, as half of these are made obsolete by the company failing and then no services being available. An alternative would be to sell devices that are able to be configured to connect to some alternative endpoint on failure.
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Replying to @jwatte
That would be a good start. An alternative would be requiring it when hardware companies merge like this.

Jul 30, 2020 · 2:34 AM UTC

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I'd love it if hardware wasn't allowed to be locked. Like printers aren't allowed to ship with toner DRM!
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