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This is nuts, isn't Samsung aware that tourism is a big thing nowadays? Imagine going on holidays to Mexico and your phone stops working because some smartass

This is nuts, isn't Samsung aware that tourism is a big thing nowadays? Imagine going on holidays to Mexico and your phone stops working because some smartass at Samsung is pushing for price discrimination.

vachina 3y ago
If you’re okay with software companies charging different prices for users from different regions, how is this any different? Also your phone don’t just drop dead once you enter Mexico, you’d have to activate the phone with a non-native samsung account for the block to kick in. My Germany created Samsung account still works on my German Samsung phone despite having living in Asia.
- MiguelX413 3y ago
  Who is to say we are ok with software companies doing it?
  - dotnet00 3y ago
    Plenty of apologiszm for them in this thread.
- em-bee 3y ago
  it's one thing to charge different prices per region, but quite another to disable the software or device just because i am moving to another country, or bought something while travelling.
  - bonton89 3y ago
    They're both bullshit though. They make extra e-waste, give customers confusing hassles to deal with and retard the benefit of cheaper goods from abroad for more expensive countries which was really the only positive aspect to your common worker in those countries enabled by global trade.
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- matheusmoreira 3y ago
  > If you’re okay with software companies charging different prices for users from different regions We're not.
- SenAnder 3y ago
  > If you’re okay with software companies charging different prices for users from different regions, how is this any different? You're asking how is backdoor access to other people's devices different from charging different prices? Are you perhaps confusing the goal (maximize profits through market segmentation) with the method (break into other people's property using a backdoor of your making, and sabotage that property)?

vachina 3y ago

If you’re okay with software companies charging different prices for users from different regions, how is this any different? Also your phone don’t just drop dead once you enter Mexico, you’d have to activate the phone with a non-native samsung account for the block to kick in. My Germany created Samsung account still works on my German Samsung phone despite having living in Asia.

MiguelX413 3y ago
Who is to say we are ok with software companies doing it?
- dotnet00 3y ago
  Plenty of apologiszm for them in this thread.
em-bee 3y ago
it's one thing to charge different prices per region, but quite another to disable the software or device just because i am moving to another country, or bought something while travelling.
- bonton89 3y ago
  They're both bullshit though. They make extra e-waste, give customers confusing hassles to deal with and retard the benefit of cheaper goods from abroad for more expensive countries which was really the only positive aspect to your common worker in those countries enabled by global trade.
  - deleted 3y ago
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matheusmoreira 3y ago
> If you’re okay with software companies charging different prices for users from different regions We're not.
SenAnder 3y ago
> If you’re okay with software companies charging different prices for users from different regions, how is this any different? You're asking how is backdoor access to other people's devices different from charging different prices? Are you perhaps confusing the goal (maximize profits through market segmentation) with the method (break into other people's property using a backdoor of your making, and sabotage that property)?