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Given that "other" marketshare is consistently measured to be less than 1% of usage observed in the wild -- and LineageOS would be a fraction of that -- I think this is safe to say is not quite relevant to actual consumer behaviour.

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You can't force people to reuse old phones, you can only make laws to make it possible

Of course you can: you can tax phones until most people can't buy new ones. That's what will happen once these laws are imposed and people keep buying new phones because they don't give a fuck. 100% democratic!

That's kind of what is done in France as well actually, there's some subside for repairs and I'm pretty sure the money is taken from a tax on new phones.

That's not too significant yet but I'm expecting the amounts to increase

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