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Surely the endless bundled crapware from every OEM just gives Windows a bad reputation in the long term. The popularity of chromebooks now are a testament to that.
I used to recommend Lenovo as a good laptop for work, with great quality hardware for the price but since a couple years my vision is shifting towards "Lenovo isn't what it used to be, I think we should stop ordering from them..." I had a lot of problems with defective hardware lately even on Thinkpad...
This news just adds to the pile of deception I had with Lenovo lately.
> The relationship with Superfish is not financially significant; our goal was to enhance the experience for users. I would prefer for this to be a lie than for it to turn out for this statement to be true. Surely nobody at Lenovo honestly belived that ad injection improved user experience?
I feel like many marketing professionals have deluded themselves into either thinking this is true or redefining enough words in their vocabulary that it becomes true. eg, If these ads result in people buying something, then that "proves" they were "useful" and thereby provided a "good experience" to the user.
I was considering getting a Lenovo X1 Carbon to run linux on. I'd be installing a clean image, so no Superfish, but I still don't want to give money to Lenovo right now. What alternative linux laptops are there? (aside from macs)
Why does lenovo thinkpad have to be the only line of laptops that has a trackpoint by default? How hard can it be to include it for other brands? This is a very important feature for some people and it limits their choice to thinkpads and (AFAIK) some HP laptops.
Lenovo is saying exactly what they need to say in order to prevent their statement from being admitted as evidence in a lawsuit or legal proceeding. In other words, they just acknowledged it without admitting fault or liability.
"We have thoroughly investigated this technology and do not find any evidence to substantiate security concerns." Seriously?!
"The relationship with Superfish is not financially significant; our goal was to enhance the experience for users."
Right.
It's not adware, it's a feature!
Lenovo is going to lose more through how they handle this than through the fact that they did it in the first place.
Sadly no. Businesses will still buy Thinkpads like candies.
Heart of the matter is that most consumers - whether personal or business users will have little to no visibility into this. And, even a smaller fraction will have the technical chops to remove this garbage unless there's a tool that's openly presented to them.
Since there are a ton of small businesses that purchase and consume laptops just as the come out of the box, I'm really interested in the industrial espionage potential with this.
Couple in all the PRISMish like revelations over the last year and a half, and I simply have trouble putting much faith in their, "oh, it's just to show better ads, sorry..." statement.
> The relationship with Superfish is not financially significant; our goal was to enhance the experience for users. I would prefer for this to be a lie than for it to turn out for this statement to be true. Surely nobody at Lenovo honestly belived that ad injection improved user experience?
This would SEEM obvious because as techies we hate ads. But you can't extrapolate this to the general population. There was one time when I visited my mother. We started her instant messaging program, and we were presented with special offers. I recognized it as such within half a second, so I almost automatically checked the 'Do not show this again' checkbox. My mother alarmed me: "No, do not make it go away! I want…
Why would you not want to sign up to know about what discounts are available at your local grocery store, especially if you frequent it weekly.