‘The customer is always right’
This fair policy of business doesn’t seem to make any sense to the modern day MNCs.
All they seem to be interested in is making big bucks which are not wrong by any means, but the fact is that most of the products being sold are a complete rip-off.
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| Even Calvin and Brian agree |
One of key examples that i would like give is based on my experience as well as several others.
'Samsung Bada' is the new word on the web and media which is creating ripples with its own series of ‘Wave - future beyond smart phones' actually its rather terrible waves .
Why I say this is, are not purely my critiques, but also the opinions of the many agitated bada customers.
To start off when you walk into a store to buy yourself a new cell phone I am sure that based on statistics 80% of gullible customers are lured into considering Samsung phones due to its eye candy looks, range of hyped features and most important of all low price tag. {Myself being one}
I don’t about how the situation is in countries of other continents but this is the scenario in most Asia Pacific countries like India where MNCs sell their low end products with lack of support and later based on the sales , improvise and finally sell their top notch products to European and North American countries.
When I asked a techaholic about the buzz created by the Samsung’s own platform for mobiles, the bada OS, this is what he had to say:
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The future beyond smart phones project was a lucrative attempt by Samsung to capture the mobile market and test their own self-developed OS which is not wrong but the introduction of lower end models particularly to countries of large middle class population just for their dummy testing along with inadequate support services just to build upon their higher range of phones is definitely unethical.
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Once you buy a bada phone you might like feel a proud customer of a feature loaded phone but it’s only a matter of time before you realize its lack of apps as well as lack of compatibility with almost anything!
And what about those Samsung apps, you don’t get one decent app if you have the wave 1 models like s5253, s533, s575 if you do get it will cost more than Rs.300, not to be offensive but 90% of the people download apps to their phone for free but on bada its virtually impossible to get even one paid app for free as its almost impossible to crack it. Whereas if you would have bought a Nokia phone, and even if it was cheaper you would definitely find thousands of apps for free on the Ovi store and even get the paid apps for free just by running a Google search for it.
I mean what is Samsung trying to prove, that they are sovereign defenders of illegal downloading
80% of the population downloads something or the other illegally. They have developed a mechanism by which customers are forced to pay for good apps, thanks to Kies.
I mean why be so greedy?!
So the next time you are hanging out with you geeky friends showing off your smart phones and their apps, how would you feel when you see some android phone owners relishing in happiness with amazing and FREE android apps , while you are stuck with the worst kind BADA OS with useless apps.
Looking at the eye candy Football game picture above you would feel amazed and get lured into buying it, thinking that such amazing games are available even for Wave 525, which makes it close to an itouch Fifa 11 game.
But believe me guys no such game exists for the 525 or other cheap versions
I mean its OK that phone cannot support such high-end games but why add photoshop editing to it and lie to gullible customers about its not so amazing .................
This is the bare truth.
Let’s look at the situation when you own a bada wave 1 or 2 model. You initially find out that
most of the apps on store are paid apps and the later that even if you find the app files on the web, there is no way installing them through wavespoofer.
And finally to conclude that the touch phone is just a useless clunk of metal about which nothing can but wait till next Christmas (if you bought an Android phone you just got lucky)
If you own the cheaper wave model you realize that not only is there any good apps available but also that the CPU processor struggles to perform and simultaneously eats away the battery power. It’s a phone which doesn’t fail to hang up with everything. So if you are new bada owner just wait till the same feelings set in.
Well you can’t exactly blame them for the lack of support reason being that every fortnight there is a new phone in the market more attractive than the previous ones so if thought you bought the latest phone, guess what there is already a newer one.
Companies deliberately cut short on some of the features, promising to deliver them in their next phone and continue to do this or give a fancy label to an ordinary feature. This is a strategy to keep the customers coming for more.
So what to do at a time when companies keep ripping off customers and only make empty promises? Which phone to buy? Which is the right touch one?
I have to be honest, it’s the Iphone
Well figures don’t lie, when they say that
There really is an app for almost everything
In fact millions of eye candy apps.
With a phone like that you don’t have to worry about the other phones in the market because your phone has all the features you could hope for.
And no I am not marketing any of apple products for incentives; I am just sharing my experience
Or if the price of I phone is just a pinch too much, then opt for an Android phone. You will be blessed by this close rival of Apple in apps.
But please for god's sake avoid Bada I am telling for your own good. Take heed to it if you want.
And also I forgot to mention that I had type parts of this document on my Wave 525 and the stupid phone couldn’t even get that right.
Believe it or not it had spaces between every letter of a word and I had to sit and search and correct every word!!
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| The Bada effect Please click to enlarge and see |
Also one more rather amazing flaw I stumbled upon was that in Samsung there are region restrictions too for apps.
For example if you live in China and you want to download some apps from www.samsungapps.com then you have access to only your country’s site and hence you cannot download apps from other country’s sites like UK .
Wow! Now why is there a restriction like that?
The Bada OS is full of restrictions and misery.
Is the developer some sort of strict army general placing restrictions on the customers from doing anything they want.
Samsung has not only programmed a unhackable OS but also managed to program the customers to follow rules and guidelines of Bada.
Here's what another customes rather angry customer had to say :
" Bada is the worst m****f***ing ! OS. what are they trying to do, bring in a disciplined OS and program us according to Bada's structure.
I never thought that Samsung would get so low !
So do you want to buy misery or freedom?
It’s simple as
Android, iOS, Symbian = Millions of Rocking apps for free and freedom to get them
Bada, other related Samsung OS = Limited yet horrible apps, which besides being costly can never be obtained for free
The Kies PC connections software by Samsung, yet another failure, as it frequently crashes causing your PC to hang or slow down.
But without this software no Bada app can be installed. SO I believe now you can imagine the extent of pain and misery you have to endure with BADA.
If you are still doubtful about my words, just watch the video below to free your mind
Thank You
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