> I cannot fathom being totally okay with manufacturers being able to retroactively change features of a product after you've purchased it and without your consent.
I can! It's a thing that presumably I was happy with for some amount of time. Things change.
> Would you be okay with your airpods suddenly deciding that they can only pair with sufficiently new apple devices
Yes! It's a risk of buying something. I can evaluate that risk and I can make different buying decisions in the future if I get burned.
Are you okay with a bait and switch executed on a shorter time frame? How about a third party breaking into your house and breaking your things, or is that only alright when the original manufacturer does it?
> Are you okay with a bait and switch executed on a shorter time frame
If I pay for it, I’m OK with it. If I decide I’m not OK with it, I’ll either not buy it or learn my lesson and make a different decision in the future.
> How about a third party breaking into your house and breaking your things, or is that only alright when the original manufacturer does it?
I think that the only position consistent with your prior statements is that burglary is just one of those things that happens sometimes, and if the homeowner really didn't like it, they'd move. Caveat emptor.
Call me crazy but I think there's a difference between breaking and entering and theft of physical objects and motion smoothing being turned on in a TV set.
I can! It's a thing that presumably I was happy with for some amount of time. Things change.
> Would you be okay with your airpods suddenly deciding that they can only pair with sufficiently new apple devices
Yes! It's a risk of buying something. I can evaluate that risk and I can make different buying decisions in the future if I get burned.