The contract requires repair shops to “immediately disassemble” devices that have parts “not purchased from Samsung.”
They’re copying Apple, which has similar clauses. They’re all going to copy Apple, unfortunately. Say that they support independent repair stores, but in reality place so many restrictions and requirements on them.
I stopped buying Samsung products a decade ago after getting a midrange Samsung smartphone that never got an OS update and had glaring bugs that never got fixed, as well as having bought a new Samsung refrigerator that would make an extremely loud bang sound every couple of hours because of a design flaw in the water line that goes to the freezer to make ice cubes.
I owned other Samsung products that also had problems, but these two cheesed me off the most.
Over the years I have read about problem after problem people have had with Samsung appliances, and problem after problem with Samsung smart phones. Samsung has been downright user-hostile to their phone customers for a while now.
Fuck Samsung.
Their entire product line really went to shit around 2015, whether you’re talking about phones, TVs, or appliances. Now they just skate by on their previously good reputation and intertia.
I stopped buying their phones when they started trying to get control over the hardware I paid for.
Samsung have gotten better with updates. In 2021, they promised all new models would receive four years of updates (which helped the industry because other brands started matching them), and they bumped it to seven years with this year’s S24 series.
Samsung and LG appliances are interesting things. Some are horrible like their fridges (which are some of the worst available today), but some are fantastic like LG’s washing machines (which rank #2 in reliability behind Speed Queen).
I have a Samsung fridge I’m happy with but I specifically avoided the in-door water/ice dispenser because I’ve heard awful things about them.
Their TVs are a pain in the ass too. The UI can be annoying and sluggish, sometimes requiring a hard reboot to get it to sort itself out.
so one of the reasons they shunned independent repair was that your privacy was at risk or something… and now they require repair shops to share customer data.
i can’t with these corpo doublespeak motherfuckers.
I wish 404media would adjust their headline layout… So much text, so big, so narrow
