SomeGadgetGuy, 14 days ago to tech

Samsung Scummy Repair Contract Forces Shops to Destroy YOUR Phone! iFixit Drops Samsung Partnership!

https://somegadgetguy.com/b/45n

Samsung forces repair shops to sign a TERRIBLE contract, that requires technicians to destroy your phone if they find non-Samsung parts in your device! iFixit is dropping their partnership with Samsung.

Why isn’t this bigger news?

#tech #technews #righttorepair #repair #samsung #anticonsumer #gadgets #bbtg #geek #ifixit #shorts #reels #video #news

freeagent, 2 months ago to microsoft

In true Orwellian fashion, Microsoft are calling it the “User Choice Protection Driver.” You can’t make this shit up.

#enshittification #microsoft #anticonsumer #monopoly https://noc.social/@AAKL/112230530692193371

SomeGadgetGuy, 4 months ago to apple

Hey neat. Just got a $90 check from the class action settlement against Apple throttling iPhones with software updates.
A phone I bought almost ten years ago.
The system works... Slowly...

#apple #lawsuit #classaction #antitrust #anticonsumer #iphone #geek #tech #technology

cazabon, 6 months ago to random

As a #company, if you release a new #version of your #product, and it immediately causes the #price of #used examples of the previous product to jump to 50% more than the #new one, then you know you have #failed the #consumer, utterly.

Yes, #Dymo, I'm looking at you.

#drm #enshittification #e14n #AntiConsumer #hostile #labelwriter #consumables

trendless, 7 months ago to random

Today's performative rituals to please the three-headed god of Canadian telecommunications: opening up “wholesale” access to FTTP networks**

(**only Bell+Telus, only in ON+QC, ostensibly to create “competition” and downward price pressure)

> Telecom Decision CRTC 2023-358
https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2023/2023-358.htm

#DOA #Oligopoly #AntiConsumer #AntiCompetitive

arstechnica, 9 months ago to random

The printers that require ink to scan and fax

How much ink does it take to scan a document?

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/the-printers-that-require-ink-to-scan-and-fax/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social