I think there needs to be some disambiguation.

Richard Branson’s Virgin Hyperloop One is literally a train. They themselves call it a train. I guess the idea is that they’re small individual cars (called pods) instead of a chain of train cars connected together, which seems really energy inefficient.

Elon Musk’s Hyperloop is a train for automobiles, which has all the inefficient downsides of a personal car, with none of the energy benefits of a train. It is the worst of both worlds. And it relies on car infrastructure at both ends, so it will bottleneck just like a highway on/off ramp. Completely nonsensical.

What are the controversies with DuckDuckGo? I’ve never heard of anything.

Why does epoxy matter for it being “disposable”? No one has a problem getting their iPhone fixed.

No need to be rude.

Again, youre wrong. Both Apple and Samsung release repair manuals and provide replacement parts. Literally no one has a problem getting either phone repaired.

I’m all for right to repair, but android phones suck for planned obsolescence so acting like they’re better about this is delusional. Don’t give them a pass.

That’s a good point. If iPhones are more expensive to repair, then many people will dispose of them rather than repair. But I looked this up, completely expecting you to be right, and it looks like android phones like Samsung are often even more expensive to repair. So I’m still not seeing the justification for the original claim that iPhones are more disposable.