[GPSCC-chat] FW: I'm Dreaming of a Green Apple

[John Thielking]

It sure would be nice if all products had a standard design and user interface. That way when Yahoo.com mail screws up three times in 2 weeks and I decide to dump them, I'm not stuck with the inferior user interface of gmail.  In these cases, design patents and copyrights are counterproductive.

John Thielking




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 From: Brian <snug.bug at hotmail.com>
To: "sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org" <sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org> 
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 7:58 PM
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] FW:  I'm Dreaming of a Green Apple
 


Further to the Green (modular) Apple concept.

A couple of years ago I bought an old computer monitor at Wierdstuff for $30 that cost $2000 
when it was new ten years ago.  It quit on me recently, and I didn't have time to fuss with it, so 
I wanted to buy a new high-res (1080p) monitor.  I spent   several hours driving around 
comparison-shopping and finding that local OfficeMax retail outlets did not actually stock the 
monitors they offered online.  The Staples monitor I bought came with a whole lot of 
styrofoam packing  material, not to mention the cardboard.

When I went to the e-waste recycler I was careful to include the unique power supply and the 
unique DVI cable associated with the monitor, in case the recycler might be able to repair the 
product or pass the power and cable on.

The plastic part of the monitor was still just as good as ever, but here I was recycling because I was 
too lazy to try to repair the power circuits.

Modularity in monitors would mean this:

1.  The display element of the monitor would be packaged as a tablet unit with standardized input
ports.  Monitor units would be available from many manufacturers with standard interface ports,
at many different  levels of quality.

2.  The monitor stand would be a separate unit that may or may not include accessories such as audio
speakers, USB ports, video ports, or what have you.  There would be plastic units, aluminum units, and 
handcrafted walnut (furniture) units from a wide variety of manufacturers--and all of them would work
with the standardized connections between the monitor stand and the monitor itself.

3.  Retailers of monitor tablet units would be required to accept turned-in obsolete or broken units for 
trade-in, and required to offer aftermarket rebuilt monitor units along with their brand-new units. 

4.  Standardization would provide great opportunities for entrepreneurs to deliver faster-better-cheaper
modules to the marketplace.















   


















________________________________
From: snug.bug at hotmail.com
To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 15:45:38 -0800
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] I'm Dreaming of a Green Apple


 

Announcing the Green Apple!  Sustainable, upgradable, and backward software 
compatible, the Green Apple will also be non-toxic, recyclable, and biodegradable.

Unit Sustainability:  
*   Modular construction allows users to trade in old CPU, I/0, and video modules 
and upgrade to the latest and greatest
*  backward compatibility of software and hardware upgrades means users' expensive
applications are never orphaned
*  Modular construction allows repair by substitution of used parts  

Bio-Friendliness and Recyclability:
*  Minimal use of toxic elements
*  Bio-degradable plastic
*  Trade-in modules can be re-used instead of trashed
*  Components have standard interfaces so dead Apples can donate screens, keypads, 
and I/O modules to Raspberry hacks

When can you get one?  NEVER--not as long as you keep buying Toxic Apples designed
for disposability and obsolescence.








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