[Apple’s annual environmental report] speaks of the Apple Pencil stylus as though it contains secrets lost in some fragment of the Rosetta Stone. The company is “designing, developing and testing additional disassembly tools — including new methods for recovering materials from Apple Pencil,” it says, as though the methods could only be reverse-engineered, rather than integrated from the very first stage of design.
– Your Smartphone Should Be Built to Last
It is only decades later that the full cost of our obsession with Thin and Light will be apparent. By then it will be too late.
Here are some posts I have written on this before: