[vachina]

If you’re okay with software companies charging different prices for users from different regions, how is this any different?

Also your phone don’t just drop dead once you enter Mexico, you’d have to activate the phone with a non-native samsung account for the block to kick in. My Germany created Samsung account still works on my German Samsung phone despite having living in Asia.

[matheusmoreira]

> If you’re okay with software companies charging different prices for users from different regions

We're not.

[MiguelX413]

Who is to say we are ok with software companies doing it?

[dotnet00]

Plenty of apologiszm for them in this thread.

[em-bee]

it's one thing to charge different prices per region, but quite another to disable the software or device just because i am moving to another country, or bought something while travelling.

[bonton89]

They're both bullshit though. They make extra e-waste, give customers confusing hassles to deal with and retard the benefit of cheaper goods from abroad for more expensive countries which was really the only positive aspect to your common worker in those countries enabled by global trade.

[SenAnder]

> If you’re okay with software companies charging different prices for users from different regions, how is this any different?

You're asking how is backdoor access to other people's devices different from charging different prices? Are you perhaps confusing the goal (maximize profits through market segmentation) with the method (break into other people's property using a backdoor of your making, and sabotage that property)?