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Re:Samsung disables customer phones remotely, holds data hos... by croes on Saturday October 28, 2023 @12:05PM (#38050864)
What Samsung did is actually more of an Apple move.

Total control, even the source shop of your phone.

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Re:Samsung disables customer phones remotely, holds data hos... by jwr on Saturday October 28, 2023 @12:12PM (#38050934)
And yet it is Samsung that we are talking about and that did the "move". Not Apple.
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Re:Samsung disables customer phones remotely, holds data hos... by brookst on Saturday October 28, 2023 @12:32PM (#38051124)
“No true Samsung”
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Re:Samsung disables customer phones remotely, holds data hos... by wiseowise on Saturday October 28, 2023 @12:09PM (#38050901)
Parent isn’t talking about control.

Their comment is off-topic, but correct.

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Re:Samsung disables customer phones remotely, holds data hos... by croes on Saturday October 28, 2023 @02:42PM (#38052306)
Parent says his prison is prettier, I say they his prison was the first of its kind and others start to copy it.
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Re:Samsung disables customer phones remotely, holds data hos... by wiseowise on Sunday October 29, 2023 @05:17AM (#38056923)
In his prison only warden snoops in your stuff, in Samsung other inmates too.
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