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Just unpacked my Sony Z3 compact, haven't installed a single app and its connecting to China... Needless to say, I will never use this phone or any other Sony p
by polack 12y ago
Just unpacked my Sony Z3 compact, haven't installed a single app and its connecting to China... Needless to say, I will never use this phone or any other Sony product ever again.
- dingaling 12y ago> Needless to say, I will never use this phone No Cyanogenmod ROMs for the Z3 series yet unfortunately so it looks like a return is your only real option. http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Devices#vendor=%22Sony%22;type=%22phone%22; http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Devices#vendor=%22Sony%22;type...
- hkmurakami 12y agoI'm willing to give SCEI (the Playstation unit) the benefit of the doubt still (despite their hacking scandal), but I'm surely done with Sony Mobile devices for sure.
- throwawayaway 12y agothe playstation unit that progressively dropped features from the ps3 you paid top dollar for? you are too kind.
- hkmurakami 12y agoAh I actually skipped the PS3 and just went for PSP/PSVita. :( Thanks for making me aware of this history.
- spacemanmatt 12y agoI was just glad that DRM got the name-and-shame it deserved every time Sony revoked a feature via online software-downgrade. Now I hate my PS3 and only use it for Amazon and YouTube. The games I paid full price for all have their hand out for DLC. Bleah.
- pjmlp 12y agoI was done with Sony after my investment into Playstation Linux (PS2), as they screwed their PS3 follow up. It was more closed down than Yaroze and PS2 Linux, and eventually kicked out the door. The PS4 makes use of clang and BSD and where are the contributions back to the communities, besides a few talks at LLVM summit?
- rwallace 12y agoWithout taking a position on this particular case, I must observe that if you are going to boycott every company that has done something that allows some government to spy on customers, your list of vendors will be down to... I was going to say your local grocery shop, but thinking about it, they probably have a credit card reader, and I'd be astonished if there weren't at least some cases of governments tracking people via credit card purchases.
- polack 12y agoIf they send data from my phone (potentially private information) to a foreign country without telling me, then I think its reasonable to boycott them. If I knew that my local grocery store sent my private information to china I would boycott them too. But I'm fairly convinced that they don't do that.
- ameen 12y agoEh, it's a push service. They aren't mining your information. It's used for their myXperia service, which is used to locate your device with a sound alert or display its position on a map. You can also erase data and/or lock your device if you lose it.[1] [1] - https://myxperia.sonymobile.com https://myxperia.sonymobile.com
- polack 12y agoIt's a service developed to retrieve my location and to get access to my device!
- fulafel 12y agoGoogle, MS, Apple, Facebook and Twitter operate out a foreign county for most of us. At most they "tell" by way of click through agreements wherein you sign away your firstborn and then some, otherweise you are without smartphones and social media.