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ThePowerOfFuet

The business has no right to remotely kill a device purchased by an end user.

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Yeah! Just degrade the battery life and user experience through forced updates so they are pushed to upgrade instead!

Did you accept the EULA?

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Consumer law comes above the EULA. A clause which states the company can remotely brick your hardware should be rendered invalid.

OK, no _moral_ right. They could probably stick a clause in there about the vacuum eating my pets for nourishment, but...

And now you've lost the plot or jumped the shark depending on which side of the pond you're on.

The point is it's good to complain

You don't own the software on the device, they do. If they choose to revoke that license, that is their choice.

Well, no. You can't just revoke a license. As far as owning the software in the device, I works would argue that you do own a copy of it. I'm sure there is some buried tos claiming you just own a license to run it, and I know this is still being litigated. But when the average person purchases someone their expectation is that they've purchased it, not licensed it.

I own the device and all of its storage. The exact state of that storage is my business and precisely no one else's.

You can own as many storage devices as you wish, it doesn't give you the right to make copies of others works and use them without license.

In EU you have the right to use bundled software as long as you own the appliance. Not sure this is true for US.

How does that work? What if the company licenses technology from company A to build product B, but the license is only good for 2 years? What happens 2 years after you buy product B?

Also doesn't Apple, Google, & other remove features from people's smartphones after release all the time in the EU?

This is not legal to sell a finished product which has a license time bomb, I suppose.

Google and Apple can change the future set but they do not brick the device which was discussed and it works as advertised at the moment of purchase.

What is the "future set" ?

Typo. "Feature set", referring to your comment. Functions of software. Quoted below, source is widely available.

“The notion of goods with digital elements should refer to goods that incorporate or are inter-connected with digital content or a digital service in such a way that the absence of that digital content or digital service would prevent the goods from performing their functions.” — Recital 14, Directive (EU) 2019/771.

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