• FireWire400@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    Google didn’t respond to Ars Technica’s request for comment.

    To be fair, I don’t really see why they should. Chances are they didn’t factor in that level of stupidity when designing those things.

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      1 hour ago

      It makes sense that they wouldn’t have anything to comment anyway. Google themselves don’t actually manufacture most Chromebooks, they only provide the OS. I imagine the majority of the mass of Chromebooks in the world by weight are actually designed and made by Lenovo, Asus, Dell, HP, etc. Even the Google branded ones are manufactured by someone else under contract.

      It’d be like demanding Microsoft explain to the news why your Dell caught fire simply because it had Windows installed on it.

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        15 minutes ago

        That’s another thing I was wondering about; Google used to design their own Chromebooks, but those always were the premium options and way too expensive for school use.