[est]

> If it phones home to China count me out.

About 1 billion Chinese customers think the same like you, except they refuse products that phone home to USA.

[PaulRobinson]

US (and EU, and indeed everywhere else), companies do not have as long and detailed a recent track record of IP theft.

[msie]

Don't forget that Facebook and Google steal all sorts of information about you too.

[est]

And that's relevant with customer choice because?

[eloisant]

Because you might be taking work-related notes on your device that you don't want to be stolen as industrial spying.

[selectodude]

Because people create IP on their tablets.

[radlad]

Makes sense? After all, you're crossing legal jurisdictions.

[bserge]

As they are free to do.