Apple is relying on carbon credits to claim Apple Watch is carbon neutral.
  • HeartyBeast@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I’m an Apple user and think their attempts reduce the environmental footprint of their product’s manufacturing is pretty good, however this is unequivocally good news.

    Purchasing carbon offsets to claim your product is carbon neutral isn’t good practice in my opinion and I’m quite glad to see the EU is thinking of outlawing it. Of course Apple needs to get its arse into gear about expandability and repairability if it is serious about reducing eWaste

    • Lexi Sneptaur@pawb.socialEnglish
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      1 year ago

      The absolute most important thing is the ability for end users to replace their batteries and displays. Storage expansion is somewhat moot by now thanks to cloud and NAS storage options coupled with 5G speeds.

      • HeartyBeast@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        Personally, I think there is absolutely no reason why in something like the iMacs, HD and RAM shouldn’t be user replaceable and upgradable.

        They always used to be until Jonny I’ve got his thinness bug.

        If Apple went for it and introduced a new aesthetic where there were small visible screws which became a symbol for cate about the environment, they could probably push the industry in that direction

        • BorgDrone@lemmy.oneEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Personally, I think there is absolutely no reason why in something like the iMacs, HD and RAM shouldn’t be user replaceable and upgradable

          Simple: user-replaceable RAM is too slow. Apples M-series SoCs combine the CPU and GPU and both share the same memory. This has massive performance advantages, especially for GPU-compute tasks. Performance of GPU code is very dependent on memory bandwidth. You cannot have high-bandwidth memory on a user-replaceable module, you have to have the memory chips physically close to the processor. This is the reason there are no user-replaceable RAM modules on GPUs either.

          With GPU compute becoming more and more important, I expect the PC world to get rid of user replaceable RAM and GPUs as well in the future.

  • Crampon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Apple could use Coca Cola’s defence on the vitamin water lawsuit.

    “no consumer could reasonably be misled into thinking vitaminwater was a healthy beverage.”

    No reasonable customer should believe their products is carbon neutral.

    Unless the product is fucking logs found in the woods.

    Great thing we actually have organizations to shit down this shenanigans.