There are semantic games at play here, I suspect. The manufacturer sold the hardware configured in a certain state; the same device could have been configured

There are semantic games at play here, I suspect. The manufacturer sold the hardware configured in a certain state; the same device could have been configured differently depending on price. Once the device is sold, the new owner is a petty tyrant over the state of his own property. But if I don't own the heating "feature" (promise of a result), I don't care. I am pretty sure that the warranty indemnifies the company against the hardware actually being fit for said purpose and therefore will not guarantee a result anyway, so what do you "own" in the first place, if not the device itself? [edit: grammar, readability]