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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Google has an online store from which you can buy chromebooks

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months 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.