mox@lemmy.sdf.org to News@lemmy.world · 7 months agoGoogle can keep your phone if you send it in for repair with non-OEM partswww.androidauthority.comexternal-linkmessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up1206arrow-down14cross-posted to: anticorporate@lemmy.giftedmc.comtechnology@lemmy.mlandroid@lemdro.idandroid@lemmy.world
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minus-squareFuglyDuck@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up74·7 months agoDo you really not send your phone off for repair without the expectation that it’s returned when the repairs are complete? Refusing to service modified hardware is one thing. Keeping the device is theft, and no ToS has the power to change that.
minus-squarehoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up22·7 months agoReminds me a bit of ASUS’ current bold strategy to hold customers ransom over their graphics cards through pressure and deception. Sounds pretty unenforceable to me.
Do you really not send your phone off for repair without the expectation that it’s returned when the repairs are complete?
Refusing to service modified hardware is one thing. Keeping the device is theft, and no ToS has the power to change that.
Reminds me a bit of ASUS’ current bold strategy to hold customers ransom over their graphics cards through pressure and deception.
Sounds pretty unenforceable to me.