| Lauster said: Ok, so you miss my point... Unacceptable, yes of course ! Anti-consumer, no. Definition of anti-consumer : improperly favoring the interests of businesses over the interests of consumers Please explain me where were the interests of Sony in this attack. |
It's Anti-Consumer because Sony obviously didn't give a crap to take proper precautions in the first place. Don't be apologetic about it. They are a multi-billion dollar business. They deserve the criticism they receive for this blatant abuse of consumer information.
| Lauster said: I already had a PS2 and card readers, and I don't like to pay twice for the same thing. Thus, I were pleased by this solution. Yes, it is damaging that they stop the production of a version that could have interested some people, but that's not anti-consumer (moreover, they warned about the end of production and lessened its price for those who wanted it), and if you think they could have maintained the same offer with a lesser price, you're out of touch of this business. |
I was making a point. Removal of features is not okay. I had it lumped in with the removal of backwards compatability and linux, so now you are just picking and playing with semantics.
| Lauster said: Come on, I think I showed fair and objective criticism toward Sony. I don't tell they are doing nothing wrong, and I don't tell that every points you mentionned are not bad. I tell you that it's not what we call anti-consumers practices. And I would have said the same if you accuse Nintendo or Microsoft of anti-consumer practices by stoping one of their products for exemple. By the way, you haven't given anti-consumer practices of Nintendo that you mentioned. |
Can't forget Sony's attack on Emulators either. Thankfully Emulators won, Sony's exploding battery fiasco years back...
You don't want me to get started on Microsoft and Nintendo either...
Microsoft's RROD was a colossal stuff up that inconvenienced and left some consumers out of pocket, they peddled a paid-subscription wall, always-online, kinect, list goes on.
Nintendo has typically shied away from adopting industry standards like CD, DVD, Blu-Ray, peddled inferior hardware that pushes multi-platforms away... Attacked their userbase via it's attack on Youtube channels, fan-made projects... And so on.
None of this is okay. And yet, there is a subset of the community that constantly finds excuses for each and every single one of these, you being a prime example in past posts with our current discussion.
| Lauster said: Technology is not biology, and that's why there are techniques like analogy. Mine may be poor, but don't act like you have not grasped the idea, you're better than that. |
I do understand your points. I just don't agree with them.
Also, please quote properly. :P
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