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> Perhaps we need some sort of "Fully Unlocked" certification to indicate that a device you're considering purchasing would actually be yours? Maybe we should
by drb91 8y ago
> Perhaps we need some sort of "Fully Unlocked" certification to indicate that a device you're considering purchasing would actually be yours?
Maybe we should make it impossible to advertise a product as being purchasable if you also aren't purchasing rights to the software (and the ability to modify it). Just remove ownership from the equation entirely unless they can demonstrate that the user has full control of the hardware.
- gmueckl 8y agoThat would be a pyrrhic victory at best. True ownership of comsumer devices is de facto a thing of the distant past. If you degraded sales to rentals by law, manufacturers would immediately try to jump onto that train and come up with ways to extract even more momey from customers. How would you feel for having to pay your CPU manufacturer for the actual CPU time spent on your personal desktop computer at home? Of course, each core counts separately. Can't have you pay less for running properly paralellized programs, now can we?
- drb91 8y ago> That would be a pyrrhic victory at best. True ownership of comsumer devices is de facto a thing of the distant past. Only because consumers are not offered an honest choice. Anyway buying by the cycle would fall squarely into non-ownership, would it not? In any case, this type of pessimism IS a clear loss for consumers.