> I am assuming you are going to setup /r/boycottsamsung, /r/boycottgoogle, /r/boycotthtc as well ?
Samsung have given me a replacement for two monitors that were just out of warranty. They came over and replaced them right then and there. For free. They were just normal 17 inch LCDs. No extra warranty. Google has given me untold GB of emails and made it work just everywhere, even in every text browser. I love Google Authenticator. I use DuckDuckGo, but still acknowledge that Google are a company that knows how to put things together. They do charity, contribute greatly to open source, help endangered languages and at least seem to have a bit more of a conscience. HTC has taken the mobile phone and turned it into something a great deal better. I don't own any of their products, but I can honestly say that my mobile is better because of them.
I've had exactly the opposite experience, Samsung denied warranty coverage on a Nexus-S, on the other hand, I've had Apple give me a free upgrade (30 to 60GB) for an iPod classic ~5 years ago, because the lock switch was broken and they changed the keyboard on an out of warranty MacBook about a year ago.
I've bought 3 Apple laptops over the past 4 years because I've had really bad experiences with Dell and HP laptops in the past. From broader perspective, both our experiences are insignificant.
Okay. Do you use Netflix or Hulu, own a Canon camera, play on your Nintendo, watch TV on your LG, use Skype to chat, connect with Facebook, edit home movies using Adobe Premiere ?
Because Google/Motorola could stop ALL of that and so much more.
I'm having trouble understanding this argument. You say Apple has wronged you with this ban on Galaxy Nexus. But the injunction is in the US and you say you live in Australia. How does that affect you?
So maybe you are opposed to Apple by principle; but by the same principle you should be opposed to Google/Motorola, too, as they have got an injunction on a few Apple products in Germany. Are you opposed to Google, too?
Not true. Google/Motorola got an injunction against a few Apple products in Germany, a few months back. Apple had to disable push mail feature on its iCloud service, in Germany, to get the products back to market.
Samsung have given me a replacement for two monitors that were just out of warranty. They came over and replaced them right then and there. For free. They were just normal 17 inch LCDs. No extra warranty. Google has given me untold GB of emails and made it work just everywhere, even in every text browser. I love Google Authenticator. I use DuckDuckGo, but still acknowledge that Google are a company that knows how to put things together. They do charity, contribute greatly to open source, help endangered languages and at least seem to have a bit more of a conscience. HTC has taken the mobile phone and turned it into something a great deal better. I don't own any of their products, but I can honestly say that my mobile is better because of them.
I'll now let you compare all this to my experiences with Apple over the past two, three years: http://www.reddit.com/r/BoycottApple/comments/vvdfd/my_perso...