http://blog.kareldonk.com/you-are-about-to-become-drm-roadkill-part-ii-judgement-day/ Software Engineer, Designer and Photographer in Suriname Sun, 20 May 2012 10:16:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://blog.kareldonk.com/you-are-about-to-become-drm-roadkill-part-ii-judgement-day/#comment-1885 Karel Donk » Archive » Canon EF 50mm f1.2 L - Defective by Design Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:23:51 +0000 http://blog.kareldonk.com/you-are-about-to-become-drm-roadkill-part-ii-judgement-day/#comment-1885 [...] What is even more incredible, is that Canon seems to get away with this kind of behaviour as well. I look at this and keep asking myself how it is that companies seem to get away with such behaviour these days: Another thing that has me amazed, is that I cannot understand how consumers seem to be so tolerant these days. It seems companies can do to consumers what they want and even rip them off, like Microsoft is now doing, without them even saying anything about it. Such a move from Microsoft should at least have sparked some major PR issues for them if not lawsuits. But consumers these days appear to have a very high level of tolerance. I recently also wrote about the bad quality control at Canon, with regards to their DSLR products. And there you see a similar problem, consumers are having issues with the products not working well, even out of the box, and many are complaining, but it looks like they just accept it for some reason as being normal. When has it become normal for a company to massively screw so many customers on such a large scale, as Microsoft is doing? When has it become normal to buy a DSLR and finding out that it does not work (well) as soon as you power it on? When has it become normal to buy a lens for your DSLR and finding out it only takes soft pictures and doesn’t focus well? [...] [...] What is even more incredible, is that Canon seems to get away with this kind of behaviour as well. I look at this and keep asking myself how it is that companies seem to get away with such behaviour these days: Another thing that has me amazed, is that I cannot understand how consumers seem to be so tolerant these days. It seems companies can do to consumers what they want and even rip them off, like Microsoft is now doing, without them even saying anything about it. Such a move from Microsoft should at least have sparked some major PR issues for them if not lawsuits. But consumers these days appear to have a very high level of tolerance. I recently also wrote about the bad quality control at Canon, with regards to their DSLR products. And there you see a similar problem, consumers are having issues with the products not working well, even out of the box, and many are complaining, but it looks like they just accept it for some reason as being normal. When has it become normal for a company to massively screw so many customers on such a large scale, as Microsoft is doing? When has it become normal to buy a DSLR and finding out that it does not work (well) as soon as you power it on? When has it become normal to buy a lens for your DSLR and finding out it only takes soft pictures and doesn’t focus well? [...]

]]> http://blog.kareldonk.com/you-are-about-to-become-drm-roadkill-part-ii-judgement-day/#comment-1817 You are about to become DRM roadkill, Part II - Judgement Day | Software Piracy Update Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:23:05 +0000 http://blog.kareldonk.com/you-are-about-to-become-drm-roadkill-part-ii-judgement-day/#comment-1817 [...] See more here: You are about to become DRM roadkill, Part II - Judgement Day Tags: piracy, software-ethics [...] [...] See more here: You are about to become DRM roadkill, Part II – Judgement Day Tags: piracy, software-ethics [...]

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