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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Amazon I would expect, because they sell whatever random garbage they want to.

Google is more than a bit egregious though, considering they’re also the company that dropped support for it.

[–] p1mrx@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Google is at fault here for creating the software-defined garbage, but they're not literally selling the products, are they?

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Google has an online store from which you can buy chromebooks

[–] jaykstah@waveform.social 5 points 1 year ago

But the article is talking about unsupported Chromebooks being sold through Amazon and Walmart. Google isn't selling the unsupported Chromebooks on their own web store.