The new Galaxy Note 3 is region-locked

Re:The new Galaxy Note 3 is region-locked by Sheepshow on Thursday September 26, 2013 @12:08PM (#6451693)

I don't like it any more than you, but to Samsung and its investors, the undeletable Pizza Hut bookmark is a feature. Not only does it generate additional revenue with little additional design time, but it also indicates that Samsung has a healthy and attractive business in which other businesses would like to participate.

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Re:The new Galaxy Note 3 is region-locked by bowlofpetunias on Thursday September 26, 2013 @02:12PM (#6452543)

Somehow I find it hard to interpret an undeletable Pizza Hut bookmark as a sign of a healthy business.

It has the familiar smell of desperation to monetize everything. Unless of course Samsung is striving to be known as the Ryanair of consumer electronics.

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Re:The new Galaxy Note 3 is region-locked by malandrew on Thursday September 26, 2013 @04:14PM (#6453326)

We blame Samsung. Most users will just deal with it. Few and far between care enough about crapware to abandon a phone manufacturer over it (assuming they even blame Samsung for it at all).

Marketing people from major companies use a Samsung phone and sees the bookmark will think "I wish our brand was there. How do we reach out to the carrier or Samsung to put our brand there as well?"

a few weeks later in a meeting with a carrier or Samsung, "Yes, we can put a bookmark there for X dollars. However if you want it to be undeletable, you can pay 2X dollars" or "Pizza Hut is paying us 2X dollars for that and we don't want to put more than one there, so you need to outbid pizza hut for that spot."

next step.... money rolling in.

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Re:The new Galaxy Note 3 is region-locked by mietek on Thursday September 26, 2013 @06:27PM (#6454024)

Next step: http://i.imgur.com/Sptabbs.jpg

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Re:The new Galaxy Note 3 is region-locked by malandrew on Thursday September 26, 2013 @12:34PM (#6451865)

Upvoted because others downvoted this. Just because you are not happy with the truthiness captured by the comment is not a reason to downvote it.

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Re:The new Galaxy Note 3 is region-locked by differentView on Thursday September 26, 2013 @12:48PM (#6451961)

It also cheapens the brand.

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Re:The new Galaxy Note 3 is region-locked by ihsw on Thursday September 26, 2013 @01:17PM (#6452154)

Fuck brand, it's a middle finger to users.

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Re:The new Galaxy Note 3 is region-locked by baddox on Thursday September 26, 2013 @01:56PM (#6452435)

I agree with that, but it's still a Samsung problem.

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