There are few things quite as emblematic of late stage capitalism than the concept of “planned obsolescence”.

  • @PeachMan@lemmy.one
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    272 years ago

    It’s not a sensible path for a school with budget constraints (which is most schools). They would need to come up with a new MDM solution because they can’t manage their computers with Google anymore. So their IT costs would increase dramatically, probably more money than they would save by keeping the old hardware alive. The simplest path forward is to just buy new Chromebooks.

      • @ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca
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        12 years ago

        Same thing it does for any instution that loans out hardware, e.g. employers:

        • monitoring

        • remote lockdown / wipe

        • remote management of installed software

        • etc.