[quote=spdrun]Exactly. Which is why the best environmental policy is to make electronics and vehicles that LAST a long time. Recycling them or building new ones is environmentally expensive.

Apple is talking out of their anuses about environmental responsibility, when they deliberately make older app versions for 3-4 year old iPads hard to download.[/quote]

Apple is probably one of the worse offenders on the planet. hard to replace batteries that have a lifecycle of about 2-3 years before you’re pretty much required to be attached power cord to use the thing since the battery won’t hold a charge. Holding back obvious improvements to a future release. They could have made a larger form factor years ago but didn’t because they knew it was one of the last major selling points they had left. Of course now that everybody on the planet that can afford a smart phone has one it’s the only way you have to keep your sales up. It’s going to be hard to keep selling 50 million iPhones a quarter if you can’t get people to replace perfectly good ones.