Google says it can’t fix Pixel Watches, please just buy a new one | With no official repair program and no parts, broken Pixel Watches are just e-waste.::With no official repair program and no parts, broken Pixel Watches are just e-waste.
I think I will stick to my dumb watches, thanks. Mechanical or quartz.
(Almost) my entire house is smart, but nothing talks to the cloud anymore.
So nobody can get that data except me. Some exceptions are that I dont have or want smart locks, that just seems to insecure and unreliable.
So they should be labelled “disposable” and priced accordingly.
Oooooh, that’s a neat idea in light of the current EU legislation concerning the Right to Repair: Introduce a mandatory, highly visible, and standardized seal that all electronic devices have to display on the front of their box:
Repairable
or
Disposable
I would also suggest mandatory price caps on disposable products, to incentivize the elimination of production of such devices.
It’d be more fitting to mandate every product to include its ecological price. Disposable vapes, for example, would disappear instantly.
