Deceptive language frequently used against consumers: Difference between revisions
Created page with "'''False benevolence''', also known as '''the "we're just protecting you" excuse''', '''the "it's for your best" excuse''', etc., is a tactic corporations often use to excuse eroding freedoms. This is done using pleasent-sounding words such as "protection" and "safety". It is the same kind of "protection" one gets from disconnecting the Internet. It indeed is safer never to connect to the Internet, but it comes with losing access to a highly useful resource. These "prot..." |
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Google has a conflict of interest as a provider of cloud storage. Imagine SanDisk owned Android and blocked Google Drive. Everyone would recognize the obvious conflict of interest. And when Android restrictions break applications like file managers, end users complain to the app developers even though it is not their fault. So these restrictions also caused headaches to innocent app developers. | Google has a conflict of interest as a provider of cloud storage. Imagine SanDisk owned Android and blocked Google Drive. Everyone would recognize the obvious conflict of interest. And when Android restrictions break applications like file managers, end users complain to the app developers even though it is not their fault. So these restrictions also caused headaches to innocent app developers. | ||
=== Non-replaceable batteries since the Samsung Galaxy S6 === | |||
Samsung couldn't just switch to non-replaceable batteries without losing a word about it, so these words at the keynote by Justin Denison, Samsung's public relations person, filled that gap: | |||
<blockquote>We refused to do this for some time. That's because we didn't want to have a built-in battery, until we were absolutely sure that users would feel confident about charging their phones. </blockquote> | |||
<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8mfEud8n4c Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2015 - Livestream (Replay] ([https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211117/U8mfEud8n4c archive]) at 27:37</ref> | |||
These are the words Samsung used to excuse making the shortest-living part of the smartphone not replaceable, removing one of the long-standing selling points of Samsung smartphones at that time. | |||
Mr. Denison is implying that the anticipation of not being able to replace a dead battery, at least not without great difficulty, is supposed to make the user "confident" about charging their phone. However, replaceable batteries provide the peace of mind that one is able to replace it at any time when (not if) it expires. | |||
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