You do not own anything!

Do you realize that you could earn money, visit a store, virtually or physically, buy (pay for) an item i.e. a phone for example and yet it doesn’t belong to you. I can visualize the puzzled looks on some faces right now.

Alright so check this out. Once upon a time, you went to a store and you bought something, anything, and it was yours completely, forever and ever and ever until the end of time. You could modify, give it away etc. it was yours to do as you pleased with.

Now, it’s not that way anymore

You do not own anything
Let me give instances…

Smartphones
Smartphone manufacturers usually have certain regions that they operate in and regions that they don’t.

Taking a company that I know very well as an example, let’s look at Xiaomi.

Xiaomi operates in China, India and Nigeria for example but doesn’t have offices or phones for places like Cuba, Iran or Syria.

So last year, a group of traders decided to buy Xiaomi phones online, on the cheap and take them to Cuba to sell.

They paid for these phones in full. They had receipts, cartons and were the full legal owners.

When they took these phones to Cuba, they began to resell them and people began buying. As soon as these final consumers turned on their location and data…

Xiaomi locked their phones. You can read about it in detail here.

Note this, any company can wake up and for any reason, whether valid or not, decide to lock your phone.

Why? It is still sort of their property. Well, sort of. I’m not a lawyer, neither am I legally inclined but think of it like this…

Your identity card from your university or workplace, it has your name and photo and belongs to you, but it is still a property of the body that issued it.

As a result, a workplace or university can reclaim their card if certain terms and conditions were violated.

People should learn to read the T&C’s a lot more than they do.

These companies may not go to the extreme and simply lock your phone but they could do other things.

Like Apple has been caught many times using software to slow old iPhones down especially when new ones enter the market.

Then you’ll see some useless marketing shenanigans like our new iPhone is 30 times faster than the last one.

Samsung was also caught recently using GOS software to slow it’s flagship phones down as well… In their defense, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 was a hotplate that drank battery and heated up like crazy.

So they had to find a way to keep the phone cool and conserve battery. But on the other hand, it is also an indictment of Samsung’s 4nm process and how much of a disaster it was.

Cars
It’s not just smartphones that this thing affects. Mercedes has also decided to lock it’s acceleration behind a paywall.

For you to drive a car to reach a certain speed. A car that you paid for. With your money again. ���

Games
Even games, especially the ones bought from online services like Steam, Xbox live or Playstation now, you do not own them.

Those games do not belong to you.

In fact, if you have hardware (Playstation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch etc.) that has not been jailbroken yet, even the physical disc that you buy off third party vendors are useless.

If you by any chance violates Steam’s T&C, your entire collection of games may be locked away and your account deleted. It doesn’t matter if you paid top dollar or Naira for those games.

Cloud storage
What about cloud storage services?

Saving your stuff on other people’s computer and then paying them a fee.

The day you fail to keep up with your payments, your stuff is now their stuff.

Microsoft are the worst! They are basically forcing Microsoft live on their users all the time. You want to use Word or Excel, open a Microsoft account.

Me: All I wanna do is type a document bro. Just a document.

Microsoft: It doesn’t matter, you must open an account.

Media Streaming
All your songs on Apple Music or Spotify are inaccessible until you pay your subscription. Your shows on Netflix, HBO, Amazon prime, Disney+, Hulu, Showmax etc. do not belong to you.

The subscription model
Basically in this new digital world, you do not own anything. Nothing at all. Everything is either rented or used as a gateway to access services from a particular company.

What we pay for is a license to temporarily use certain software or hardware services from different hardware manufacturers or software developers.

That’s all there is to it.

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really insightful piece, good job.

I had a discussion with a colleague a few days ago about the automobile industry's adoption of paywalls.

interesting times ahead.

Vilgax:
really insightful piece, good job.

I had a discussion with a colleague a few days ago about the automobile industry's adoption of paywalls.

interesting times ahead.

Very interesting times ahead bro.

Use the cracked software na... Simple!

Boomboost:
Use the cracked software na... Simple!

It's a good alternative, yes but it's not so simple.

Cracked software could slow your phone down, steal your data, crash your device, spy on you etc

This is the most insightful piece of info i have read this year.

But many Nigerians will say otherwise, they seem to be pedants claiming to know all.

Thumbs up For this Intresting Write up. Even right to repair is been taking away from customers, imagine paying top dollars or naira for a phone and when it spoils, the customer is denied part to repair and force to buy another device.

masterfactor:
Thumbs up For this Intresting Write up. Even right to repair is been taking away from customers, imagine paying top dollars or naira for a phone and when it spoils, the customer is denied part to repair and force to buy another device.

Bless you. It's actually easier to buy a new phone than to repair an old one.

Okay, nice piece.

What about the lighter on my bed now and the chicken on my hands now?

Does that mean I don't own it even if I crush the chicken to the bone and empty all the traces inside of me?

Nice piece of information. Kudos!

This keyword here is
CONTROL.
it is part of the new world order agenda. . .

That's why everything important to me or about me or of some people I've saved most of them has been offline since 2009, been moving them from disk to disk after 4 to 5 years to prevent disk crashes! And as for phone, I've got two, one is rooted compromised and can be used to save Nuclear launch codes it's basically a burner phone and the other is my government phone the files in there is for me and The agent monitoring me

Olasyke:
Okay, nice piece.

What about the lighter on my bed now and the chicken on my hands now?

Does that mean I don't own it even if I crush the chicken to the bone and empty all the traces inside of me?

Lol...

falcon01:
That why everything important to me or about me or of some people I've saved most of them has been offline since 2009, been moving them from disk to disk after 4 to 5 years to prevent disk crashes! And as for phone, I've hot two, one is rooted compromised and can be used to save Nuclear lunch codes it's basically a burner phone and the other is my government phone the files in there is for me and The agent monitoring me

Are you an avenger or perhaps affiliated to one?

Very insightful

Very accurate and insightful piece..

Excellent piece!

Well done

God bless you OP.

Very good tips

There's nothing sinister about this, it's called innovation in the business world
Businesses are constantly looking for ways to maximize profits, they are not charity organizations.

If you take your time to read about all the "Great" entrepreneurs like Gates, Rockefeller, Ford...e.t.c, you will notice that these men were cheats that engage in sharp practices.
Even here in Nigeria our own billionaires like Dangote, ibeto, Ade Ojo and co are not left out...they are all in it for the money by hook or by crook

The scary part is even pharmaceutical companies and hospitals operate with the same goals and objectives....to maximize profit by every means possible.

This needs to be on the front page

always a pleasure reading your articles/writeups.

albeit, I've not been active on here, for sometime now.

atheistandproud:


Bless you. It's actually easier to buy a new phone than to repair an old one.

iPhone is the worst with it Anti-Repair policy, imagine paring each component of it phone to the iPhone OS, IMMEDIATELY the software discover that the part serial number does not match with what it comes with from the factory, you loose some functionality. Samsung will soon follow suit.

atheistandproud:
You do not own anything!

Do you realize that you could earn money, visit a store, virtually or physically, buy (pay for) an item i.e. a phone for example and yet it doesn’t belong to you. I can visualize the puzzled looks on some faces right now.

Alright so check this out. Once upon a time, you went to a store and you bought something, anything, and it was yours completely, forever and ever and ever until the end of time. You could modify, give it away etc. it was yours to do as you pleased with.

Now, it’s not that way anymore

You do not own anything
Let me give instances…

Smartphones
Smartphone manufacturers usually have certain regions that they operate in and regions that they don’t.

Taking a company that I know very well as an example, let’s look at Xiaomi.

Xiaomi operates in China, India and Nigeria for example but doesn’t have offices or phones for places like Cuba, Iran or Syria.

So last year, a group of traders decided to buy Xiaomi phones online, on the cheap and take them to Cuba to sell.

They paid for these phones in full. They had receipts, cartons and were the full legal owners.

When they took these phones to Cuba, they began to resell them and people began buying. As soon as these final consumers turned on their location and data…

Xiaomi locked their phones. You can read about it in detail here.

Note this, any company can wake up and for any reason, whether valid or not, decide to lock your phone.

Why? It is still sort of their property. Well, sort of. I’m not a lawyer, neither am I legally inclined but think of it like this…

Your identity card from your university or workplace, it has your name and photo and belongs to you, but it is still a property of the body that issued it.

As a result, a workplace or university can reclaim their card if certain terms and conditions were violated.

People should learn to read the T&C’s a lot more than they do.

These companies may not go to the extreme and simply lock your phone but they could do other things.

Like Apple has been caught many times using software to slow old iPhones down especially when new ones enter the market.

Then you’ll see some useless marketing shenanigans like our new iPhone is 30 times faster than the last one.

Samsung was also caught recently using GOS software to slow it’s flagship phones down as well… In their defense, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 was a hotplate that drank battery and heated up like crazy.

So they had to find a way to keep the phone cool and conserve battery. But on the other hand, it is also an indictment of Samsung’s 4nm process and how much of a disaster it was.

Cars
It’s not just smartphones that this thing affects. Mercedes has also decided to lock it’s acceleration behind a paywall.

For you to drive a car to reach a certain speed. A car that you paid for. With your money again. ���

Games
Even games, especially the ones bought from online services like Steam, Xbox live or Playstation now, you do not own them.

Those games do not belong to you.

In fact, if you have hardware (Playstation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch etc.) that has not been jailbroken yet, even the physical disc that you buy off third party vendors are useless.

If you by any chance violates Steam’s T&C, your entire collection of games may be locked away and your account deleted. It doesn’t matter if you paid top dollar or Naira for those games.

Cloud storage
What about cloud storage services?

Saving your stuff on other people’s computer and then paying them a fee.

The day you fail to keep up with your payments, your stuff is now their stuff.

Microsoft are the worst! They are basically forcing Microsoft live on their users all the time. You want to use Word or Excel, open a Microsoft account.

Me: All I wanna do is type a document bro. Just a document.

Microsoft: It doesn’t matter, you must open an account.

Media Streaming
All your songs on Apple Music or Spotify are inaccessible until you pay your subscription. Your shows on Netflix, HBO, Amazon prime, Disney+, Hulu, Showmax etc. do not belong to you.

The subscription model
Basically in this new digital world, you do not own anything. Nothing at all. Everything is either rented or used as a gateway to access services from a particular company.

What we pay for is a license to temporarily use certain software or hardware services from different hardware manufacturers or software developers.

That’s all there is to it.

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this post suppose to be on front page not the nonsense Dj Cuppy

If any company mistakely or deliberately lock my phone or car i used my hard earned money to buy, i will use sniper to take down the owner of that company and drop a note for them.


shey na my money.

That's how my friends iPhone was locked without any reason, OP this is the truth you just stated, we actually do not own anything digital or technology wise.

Even house sef, government may decide one day to demolish it to build roads, markets, refineries..

Maybe the only thing we own are shoes, clothes, plates and other household stuffs..

Bitter truth..

I have been wondering about the phone stuff, phone keeps depreciating in quality as the day goes by. What is the solution please?

Brainmytool:
This is the most insightful piece of info i have read this year.

But many Nigerians will say otherwise, they seem to be pedants claiming to know all.

LowKeyManny:
Very accurate and insightful piece..

DesChyko:
Excellent piece!

Well done

christianjoy:
Very good tips

ConnectPhones:
God bless you OP.

Entrepreneurrr:
Very insightful

Thanks guys

falcon01:
That why everything important to me or about me or of some people I've saved most of them has been offline since 2009, been moving them from disk to disk after 4 to 5 years to prevent disk crashes! And as for phone, I've hot two, one is rooted compromised and can be used to save Nuclear lunch codes it's basically a burner phone and the other is my government phone the files in there is for me and The agent monitoring me

Edward Snowden would be proud of you boss.

TheWolfen:
This keyword here is
CONTROL.
it is part of the new world order agenda. . .

More and more control.

shortgun:
There's nothing sinister about this, it's called innovation in the business world
Businesses are constantly looking for ways to maximize profits, they are not charity organizations.

If you take your time to read about all the "Great" entrepreneurs like Gates, Rockefeller, Ford...e.t.c, you will notice that these men were cheats that engage in sharp practices.
Even here in Nigeria our own billionaires like Dangote, ibeto, Ade Ojo and co are not left out...they are all in it for the money by hook or by crook

The scary part is even pharmaceutical companies and hospitals operate with the same goals and objectives....to maximize profit by every means possible.

It's mostly driven by profits for now but it can absolutely be weaponized against ordinary people.

Imagine Facebook can ban you for a month if you say go against their so called community rules right.

Imagine having your Netflix, Spotify, Apple Music, Phone or even your car locked down because you said you don't support some leftist propaganda.

Imagine it.

It's quite extreme I know, but think about it.


In addition, there's no honest billionaire.

Elon, Gates, Arnault, Bezos (especially this bald headed one), Zuckerberg etc are all criminals

masterfactor:


iPhone is the worst with it Anti-Repair policy, imagine paring each component of it phone to the iPhone OS, IMMEDIATELY the software discover that the part serial number does not match with what it comes with from the factory, you loose some functionality. Samsung will soon follow suit.

There's a guy called Jeffrey Hughes on Facebook.

He bought two brand new iPhones from a verified Apple Store and then took both apart. He then switched parts of the two phones. He put Phone A's screen in Phone B and so on.

These phones rejected original parts and wouldn't work properly.

Apple are criminals