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javitury | 2 years ago

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.

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vachina|2 years 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.

matheusmoreira|2 years ago

> If you’re okay with software companies charging different prices for users from different regions

We're not.

MiguelX413|2 years ago

Who is to say we are ok with software companies doing it?

em-bee|2 years 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.

SenAnder|2 years 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)?