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diff --git a/articles/artificial-software-level-lockdowns.md b/articles/artificial-software-level-lockdowns.md index 9dee4ad..1e73c68 100644 --- a/articles/artificial-software-level-lockdowns.md +++ b/articles/artificial-software-level-lockdowns.md @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ The term basically signifies the practises endorced by the tech companies to art ### The seriousness of the issue -By these tactics, the tech companies ensure that you don't actually own the product that you paid for by not having full control over it, but instead making you to be dependent on them for the lifespan of your devices. Hence even if you paid for a new phone, you don't have control for how long you want to use it as the manufacturers can even render it unusable way before its actual lifespan at their own will. And by disallowing any sort of modifications on the device, the consumer has no way to utilize it beyond its lifecycle given by the manufacturer even if it is still capable to get utilized beyond it. +By these tactics, the tech companies ensure that you don't actually own the product that you have paid for by not having full control over it, but instead making you to be dependent on them for the lifespan of your devices. Hence even if you paid for a new device such as a phone, you don't have control for how long you want to use it as the manufacturers can even render it unusable way before its actual lifespan at their own will. And by disallowing any sort of modifications on the device, the consumer has no way to utilize it beyond its lifecycle given by the manufacturer even if it is still capable to get utilized beyond it. The consequences of these is similar to irrepairable devices, such as generation of ewaste, forcing consumer to buy a product they don't want to, etc. |