I'd love more technical details on how this was possible. What system in the OS/baseband is responsible? If you installed LineageOS could you protect yourself?
Samsung disables customer phones remotely, holds data hostage [video]
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Re: Samsung disables customer phones remotely, holds data hostage [video]
#52So, a hardware I've paid an arm and a leg for can be shutdown by the manufacturer. I think, we've give up too much power and become too tolerant of excessive overreach of these giants. I no longer look into future with optimism.
Dark age of tech
Re: Samsung disables customer phones remotely, holds data hostage [video]
#53Is this news specific to Samsung? Doesn't iPhone have same feature? I mean why would we assume all these devices stolen from California Apple stores should keep working like nothing happen??
Re: Samsung disables customer phones remotely, holds data hostage [video]
#54So, a hardware I've paid an arm and a leg for can be shutdown by the manufacturer. I think, we've give up too much power and become too tolerant of excessive overreach of these giants. I no longer look into future with optimism.
What’s worse is people defending said giants as if they were part of a cult. See apple, microsoft and google defenders. Crazy how people lacking a sense of belonging take refuge in defending corporations.
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#55That's messed up. I have generally preferred Samsung products,too. 10-15 years ago, when I had a lot more free time, I used to put CyanogenMod on my phones and play around with that. Are there any good open source mobile OS around these days?
GrapheneOS on a Pixel is really the only phone setup I'm vaguely comfortable running these days. If this project ends, I'm a bit screwed.
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Most of the world simply can't afford an iPhone.
If Apple releases mid-tier phone after this, they will win the market for sure.
You forgot the other reason. I don't want an IPhone because I prefer to actually own my device (and because Android is overall more secure and I personally care about this).
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No. This is just because phones in Mercadolibre, or other Fayuca places are cheaper and better models than the overpriced ones they sell in Samsung's own "official " store. I'll replace my phone this year. And was looking to buy a samsung s23 ultra. But all my phones are multi sim. Samsung mexico doesn't sell multi sim. But the gray market ones so sell multisim and a 512gb original s23 is $250 USD cheaper than the on…
Is the pricing difference stem from market discrimination on the part of Samsung or tax avoidance on the part of Mercadolibre?
A little of both
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I see a lot of ZTE phones in the stores here in Cancún. I’ve not seen that brand before coming here. Some of them are pretty cheap even. I thought about buying one so that I could leave my iPhone in the hotel room some days and only carry a cheap phone when I am outside walking in some parts of the city. We are leaving Cancún soon, so now there is not so much point in doing that anyways. But I was thinking that I cou…
ZTE is not connected to Samsung. There were some budget ZTE phones sold in the USA about 10 years ago. I believe ZTE was banned by the US government, along with Huawei for doing shady things.
"I believe ZTE was banned by the US government, along with Huawei for doing shady things."
The shady things are beeing chinese owned and there is a trade war? Otherwise I heard lots of accusations, but saw no proof of anything.
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> We need a law, and that"s coming from a libertarian. > easily implemented by starting over and reprogramming everything. Press X to doubt. Theoretically a free market would/should solve this. That's been the dream of Free Software and hardware. Today you can run GNU/Linux on a PinePhone, or GrapheneOS or similar de-Googled Androids on a Pixel.
How would a free market prevent Samsung from doing this?
In his mind a free market enables customers to boycott phones with such shenanigans.
Problem is, this assumes all people are properly educated, aware and motivated which is never the case. The market can never be 100% free.
Re: Samsung disables customer phones remotely, holds data hostage [video]
#60So, a hardware I've paid an arm and a leg for can be shutdown by the manufacturer. I think, we've give up too much power and become too tolerant of excessive overreach of these giants. I no longer look into future with optimism.
You could see this from a mile away with Samsung. They come up with some slick thing with an uncanny valley feel (Bixby, Knox, One UI) only to reinvent the wheel with it within two or three releases. They rotated through three separate TV platforms between 2010 and 2015. The former of the two got shutdown ASAP after the transition. There is no sense of consistency other than their corporate schizophrenia with their p…
> They come up with some slick thing with an uncanny valley feel (Bixby, Knox, One UI) only to reinvent the wheel with it within two or three releases.
> They rotated through three separate TV platforms between 2010 and 2015. The former of the two got shutdown ASAP after the transition.
> There is no sense of consistency other than their corporate schizophrenia with their products.
It's fun how I feel like you're quite literally describing Google/Android as well.
Google's TV platforms are Chromecast, Nexus Q and Android TV (and don't get me started on Google TV).
Android added widgets and then largely forgot about it. Nowadays looks like it came back (partly thanks to Apple supporting it?)
Android added blur in Android 2. Removed it in Android 3. Added it in Android 11. Removed it Android 12.
Android added dynamic backgrounds in Android 2. Then largely recommended to stop using it. Then added as a beautiful new feature in Pixels.
On a more purely technical note, I have even a better one: Does Android's boot.img contain an initramfs? In Android 6 yes, in Android 7/8 it depends, in Android 9 no, in Android 10 yes, in Android 14 no.
And Google also like to remove user's data without much recourse.