You bring up an interesting point that I forgot to consider. Consumer confidence erosion.
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I'm talking specifically about companies, like those scumbags at Lenovo that added that software that Turn the dang phone over to the NSA; that's what they're here for. them to collect data without the consumer knowing about it!
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FYI: Lenovo, Huawei, Haier et all are either directly government owned or controlled companies. By the latter I mean the owners have very tight relations with the government (former colleague, marriage, school pal, etc) even if the company is not actually owned by the government - at any level, not just federal.
Huawei stole massive amounts of code from Cisco. GM had its vehicle designs stolen by one of ITS PARTNERS, one that went on to manufacture one of the most popular vehicles in China (years back) WITHOUT ANY compensation to GM. (GM later severed the JV.)
So when it comes to ANY telecomm gear that these companies DESIGN, SOURCE parts for, and MANUFACTURE, I will not buy them. Since I don't use this Sero pad for important personal stuff, I would be okay with using theirs - kinda. But not my phone or main computer/Wi-Fi, etc.
That 'Apples', 'HPs', etc are a bit better IF they control the design and the sourcing of parts. Not to say China can't have suspect parts slipped in, but it's harder on massive scale at the factory. Even our own NSA has intercepted shipments to customers in order to swap parts or embed code in EEPROMs.
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