Comment on Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line

• Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨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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  • MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨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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    • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨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.

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