Italy fines Samsung and Apple due to firmware updates that slow performance
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- RXDX
- KiS
- 25 Oct 2018
Anonymous, 25 Oct 2018Electrical Engineers mostly use motorola and sony onlyNope dude.. In Indonesia we use Xiaomi
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- Anonymous
- IW@
- 25 Oct 2018
Anonymous, 25 Oct 2018Excellent development by Italian regulatory authorities aga... moreIn addition, there should be worldwide regulation against planned obsolescence in phones, an international body strictly monitoring a country's compliance with efforts to miminimize electronic wastes especially smartphones that make up the bulk of electronic wastes.
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- Anonymous
- IW@
- 25 Oct 2018
Excellent development by Italian regulatory authorities against planned obsolescence by phone manufacturers. Non-removable batteries that have zero or limited availability a few years after a phone model has been released should also be fined heavily as planned obsolescence. Manufacturers who keep on coming up with numerous phone models but don't support them with software security updates for at least 5 years need to be heavily penalized as well for planned obsolescence. Non-expandable storage is also planned obsolescence as they make you buy a new phone when storage is full. These manufacturers without micro sd expansion should also be heavily fined for planned obsolescence.
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- Anonymous
- PA7
- 25 Oct 2018
Electrical Engineers mostly use motorola and sony only
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- Hello Life
- XTL
- 25 Oct 2018
Sonu4678, 25 Oct 2018We all know about Apple's infamous planned obsolescence pro... moreWhen did Apple confirm to planned obsolescence? They only slowed performance in 6s and later if the battery is in less than optimal condition, as the phones used to shut down randomly in rough use cases. But in future updates they even gave the option to users to control it. They even offered free battery replacements for one month and battery replacements at 1/3rd the price for entire one year. I have been using 6s for the last 3 years, without the feel of slowing down or the need to replace my battery. Infact ios 12 made the 6s faster than the os that it came with 3 yeats ago.
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- Hello Life
- XTL
- 25 Oct 2018
The ios 12 literally gave life to a 6 year old Handset. No wonder Italy is falling apart.
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- Hello Life
- XTL
- 25 Oct 2018
The ios 12 literally gave life to a 6 year old Handset. No wonder Italian Economy is falling apart. Nahi hoga tumse. Kisi Desi ko bula lo, and make him/her your dictator for a better future.
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- Anonymous
- HuB
- 25 Oct 2018
AnonD-558092, 25 Oct 2018You consider yourself a techie when you say that only RAM c... moreXda community spits in the face of the billion dollar companies.
But then again, they wouldn't become billion dollar companies if they cared about their earlier devices.
See how they were glueing batteries just so they can charge people to replace them or make them buy new ones.
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- Akaike
- iV%
- 25 Oct 2018
Domestoboto, 25 Oct 2018All the more incentive for Samsung to just bypass Italy wit... moreThats BS they can make a compatible version of the update for phones with "lower" processor as you say. They are just too lazy and greedy releasing phones all the damn time, you can't even get to enjoy your current device.
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- Domestoboto
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- 25 Oct 2018
All the more incentive for Samsung to just bypass Italy with phone updates.
Also, people tend to forget that their phones have weaker processors than the one that replaced their phone. It's as if they bought a Euro 3-spec BMW and complain that their car is slower than a Euro-6 model and then Sue BMW for making their cars slow...
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- Shui8
- KZ8
- 25 Oct 2018
Sonu4678, 25 Oct 2018We all know about Apple's infamous planned obsolescence pro... moreThey dont mention about what device, & I know it must be about ram management & TouchWiz UI.
New Samsung Experience UI at least improve the lagginess even after a year usage.
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- Shui8
- KZ8
- 25 Oct 2018
They found guilty.
What a dirty strategy. Other countries should do this as well.
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- AnonD-558092
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- 25 Oct 2018
Nicknam, 25 Oct 2018No, I am saying that Note3 can run android 9 because it has... moreThose ports are unofficial. They do not undergo official QA, certifications and all the process. They also do not use official drivers, which may infringe on contracts OEMs sign with the SoC provider (such as Qualcomm)
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- Anonymous
- tCR
- 25 Oct 2018
Too bad the maximum amount is €5 million. This is not much of a penalty and doesn't help anyone who's seen their phone's performance go to crap after an update.
I would like to see these government agencies fine them that amount each month until they send out an update that allows users to go back to the previous/original version of the OS.
That would get the attention of Apple and Samsung and help the consumers.
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- PeterThePanda
- t7x
- 25 Oct 2018
5 million only?! They should be fined at least 5 BILLION for what they've been doing for several years.
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- Nicknam
- 8kt
- 25 Oct 2018
AnonD-558092, 25 Oct 2018You consider yourself a techie when you say that only RAM c... moreNo, I am saying that Note3 can run android 9 because it has 3GB of RAM. You already have built Oreo 8.1 ROMs for it. I know that every device gets about 2 years of official OS updates.
And J2 is galaxy S2 released with newer OS and little faster chipset.
I am not a troll. I know what I am saying. Don't protect Samsung, they are not customer friendly company.
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- Shak23
- PHu
- 25 Oct 2018
Ummm from what i remembered sony refreshed their design how long did it take apple to refresh their design and even Samsung haven't refreshed their design since the s6 series just refined it the xz3 design waz totally refreshed and bezeless id take the xz3 front firing speakers rather than bottom mounted
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- Sonu4678
- K6t
- 25 Oct 2018
We all know about Apple's infamous planned obsolescence proof and they themselves confirmed it. I didn't hear anything about Samsung's side though. I would like to know more details about that, not just sentence. I already read some of the comments claiming it, but it's not a reliable source. If you guys have any specific article, please let me know. I personally want to believe in Samsung cuz i like their products and business mentality, but i'm certainly not a blind fanb@y.
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- Akaike
- iV%
- 25 Oct 2018
Two diagusting companies, especially apple. After updating to ios 11 my phone has been rendered useless because of activation error and i can't downgrade. Contacted apple and tried everything, no solution. I'm basically left with an expensive brick.