cross-posted from: https://lemmy.nowsci.com/post/5896434
Quest 1 becomes near-E-waste Apr 30
If companies stop supporting devices/software, they should be free game for someone else to pick up the slack, hack, modify or otherwise make useful to people without consequence. Companies like Nintendo would rather shoot you though.
How long until they pull this shit with the Quest 2? It’s not worth it to buy into this technology if they’re just going to fuck you over with planned obsolescence in a couple of years. I hope this bites them right in the asshole
It is the same everywhere. Technology is fucked all over the world. Thats why I just set up a petition on change.org
What the actual fuck!
Seriously? My kid still uses the headset… He liked it. Had one way before Facebook/meta took over…way before they forced a Facebook signing thing…
God DAMN I hate modern tech companies.
I still have an electronic RC car from the 70s in my garage from my childhood. I can put in batteries and play with it. The stupid bb8 remote control toy my kid got is obsolete because the servers it needed to work were shutdown…
So you can see why I made this community I guess. And why I made the change.org petition to force companies to open up the devices they abandon. This would immediately reduce ewaste and make items we buy actually ours. Feel free to search for it on change.org and sign it. Hell, tell your friends about it and the parents at your kids school and let them sign it as well. Thats why I did this. To change things.
my favourite part is how while yes, developers can still release software for the Quest 1, as long as they also release it for the Quest 2, users are not allowed to even search for it.
SEARCH is blocked/filtered (for new Q1/2 apps released after April 30). What the hell.
How does that make sense?
Am I misunderstanding this, or is this like if say Sony would say ”after April this year we will not license any NEW games for Playstation 4 anymore?”
“After april this year you cant put another game in the shop” if I understand correctly, which essentially means your devide is doomed to stay like it is and you personally cant do shit about it. Feel free to correct me.