Next: skim read post a bit, figure out what you have to do. Don’t read all of it and hope that it isn’t all important.
Month: April 2017
1st step: search around a bit, find forum post explaining what to do. https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?s=90660e255d1d68b641dc8dc981449976&t=266821
22:45. Time to try and flash the ROM on my ebook reader.
App trade flows look like 19th century colonial trade flows. http://cariboudigital.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Caribou-Digital-Winners-and-Losers-in-the-Global-App-Economy-2016.pdf
On @sparkcbc , Mark Surman talks about the health of the internet, and the need for decentralisation. #indieweb. http://www.cbc.ca/radio/spark/352-baby-boxes-internet-health-and-more-1.4049940
Alongside repair collectives, organizations working to address the culture of app obsolescence will play an important role in the future of repair culture.
e.g. grassroots organisations working on community-supported alternative OSs, and organisations curating lists of apps that still function on earlier versions of OSs.
426,000 discarded mobile devices a day in the United States.
Psychological obsolescence. The illusion of newness.
Transformation of physical features of the technology to signify newness has become a standard practice in generating consumer interest and buying power.
This iPhone is nine years old; when considered in the larger scale of technological change, this is an incredibly short time span for the technology to become obsolete