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Re:Google is finally killing off Chrome apps, which nobody r... by nolok on Thursday January 16, 2020 @08:15AM (#22064167)
If this was indeed a fact advertised on the marketing material or worse on the packaging/product page, then he can have a refund or at least a partial one, depending on the country. If it was talked about what could happen, or not mentionned in any official marketing material but in PR pieces, then nope.

See eg the PS3 claiming it could install a normal linux.

I don't know how the exact laws work in other countries, but in France it's also two different things that work differently, one is you sold me a product that isn't working, the other is your marketing lied. Both are illegal but on different terms. Thus if it's not on the box or product page, then it's a marketing material issue.

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Re:Google is finally killing off Chrome apps, which nobody r... by Steltek on Thursday January 16, 2020 @10:12AM (#22065203)
Wasn't the PS3 refund only like $10-$20? Why even go through that effort for a Chromebook?
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Re:Google is finally killing off Chrome apps, which nobody r... by NullPrefix on Thursday January 16, 2020 @11:01AM (#22065727)
It's not about the $10-$20, it's about sending the message.
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Re:Google is finally killing off Chrome apps, which nobody r... by CydeWeys on Thursday January 16, 2020 @11:04AM (#22065769)
Costing a many billion dollar multinational corporation $10-20 isn't sending a message at all. It's just a waste of your time.
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Re:Google is finally killing off Chrome apps, which nobody r... by AstralStorm on Thursday January 16, 2020 @11:29AM (#22066058)
Not if you expand the $10 into a class action. That however is a lot of work.
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Re:Google is finally killing off Chrome apps, which nobody r... by CydeWeys on Thursday January 16, 2020 @11:35AM (#22066111)
It still doesn't add up to a lot of money. The total class of people who were trying to run Linux on the PS3 and then weren't able to just isn't that big.
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Re:Google is finally killing off Chrome apps, which nobody r... by boring_twenties on Thursday January 16, 2020 @01:21PM (#22067297)
Once the class action is in motion, what's to stop many more PS3 owners to claim that they were interested in running Linux just to get the free ten bucks?
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Re:Google is finally killing off Chrome apps, which nobody r... by thrower123 on Thursday January 16, 2020 @04:18PM (#22069061)
That winds up being a big payday for a law firm, and free identity monitoring for everybody else...
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