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A European company selling their product to US customers, with (as I understand it nontrivial) US regulatory certifications. They clearly have the US market in
by ryukafalz 5y ago
A European company selling their product to US customers, with (as I understand it nontrivial) US regulatory certifications. They clearly have the US market in mind in addition to the European market.
- hnlmorg 5y agoThe key part there is "in addition". The US in addition to the rest of the world. You might have a booming tech industry yourselves that put America's interests first -- and that is absolutely fine for American companies to do -- but please don't assume that every other company in the world should too. If a European company wants to put a lower priority on implementing MMS knowing that it's both non-trivial and non-free in most of the world -- not least of all their own country -- then I that's a perfectly reasonably thing for them to do.
- ryukafalz 5y agoI mean yes, it's perfectly fine and valid for them to make that tradeoff. I just think it's also reasonable to make potential American customers aware of that tradeoff though, because just about everyone I know of here would consider that a dealbreaker, and they might not realize it otherwise until they've already bought the phone and started losing messages (which can be hard to detect). Hence my post.
- hnlmorg 5y agoThe thing is, people had. The majority of the conversation was yourself arguing that their decision is wrong because "America". At times it felt like there was little appreciation from your part that this isn't an American company and their target demographic is going to be much wider than just America.