I purchased the M11 Plus LTD to replace my HiBy R6 Pro. The HiBy R6 Pro has several major issues that revealed themselves well after the refund period. So I was stuck with it.
This is becoming the norm of the ‘modern world’.
I couldn’t count (on two hands at least) the number of times I have had a firmware update add ‘features’ (generally unlisted/unknown) all whilst removing a feature I bought the product for.
Its like the magicians‘ trick of ’look here’, whilst they sleight of hand away something from us... (left hand giveth, right hand taketh away..).
Sometimes its small stuff, like when a game like the PC version of Forza Horizon (3) is sold as ‘offline capable’, but then gets updated to be ‘online only’ (a year later).
In that instance I felt genuinely ripped off as ‘the Crew’ was my
online racer, Forza was bought for
offline racing (for me at least..).
That change was significant, but then they changed the Australian themed graphics to British themed graphics (like the post boxes went from being ‘Australia post’ to Brittish...
Some things might be done in error, but, generally once the support cycle ends, what options do we have.
In the case of Forza, they stated that the ‘online only’ was an ACCIDENT, but ’since it is the last update we are doing, “we won’t fix our mistake”(!)’. Thankyou Microsoft! (sarcasm)
Of course it was a later update that removed the Australian themed graphics from my Australian regioned game.
It was certainly NOT the product I bought.
Less insidious would be Samsung removing Apt X HD codec from phones that sold with it..
Technically getting an update after life of product has been had is a good thing, so I won’t complain, but the issue here likes with security updates nowadays only being given with operating system updates (a model that Apple moved to to the detriment of hardware users globally).
iOS 10 ran way faster than any variants since on my 12.9” iPad Pro (first gen). Some features have been crippled or made a ‘few extra clicks’ to get stuff done.
Sure, sometimes we DO GET improvements.. but the reality is, when security updates only come with the OS updates, we are forced into a cycle that will likely prove anti-consumer if the big companies can get away with it...
Having been updating stuff for decades now, I gather more often that not I have been given clear improvements with nil detriment...
;but, it still burns a little when things are discovered ‘after the fact’.
Like buying a collectors edition of Cyberpunk for PS4 waiting the eventual PS5 upgrade.. Still haven’t played the game. Still haven’t opened my ‘big box’.
Whether the PS5 of the game will land by March next year is an unknown. Hopefully it will before mid year.
At which point I might be annoyed to find out advertised/promised/or ‘suggested’ features may/‘may not’ be apart of the package.
Of course my local games retailer ain’t gonna refund me on a years old piece of software at that point...
ON TOPIC of the M11+;
the first night of testing I trialled a few of my ‘ideals’ for the device (bought to be a ’jack of all trades’ & ’master of some’ tool)..
The notion of using
bluetooth receive for gaming (or movies) was instantly killed when the latency involved (over a second!) made it impractical for me to use the feature in this specific use case (wouldn’t affect music listening in the slightest)..
Whilst I seldom buy from big ticket shops with a generous return policy (although I advocate to many consumers to do exactly that when ‘unsure if a product will serve them/suit ‘their needs’ ‘, it must be harrowing to put big money down on a purchase only to find that it wasn’t what we thought it was, and ‘now that we have DRIVEN IT- we MUST KEEP IT.
In the case of the M11+ I have found a few niggles that if I had known that was the way it did things I’d be less interested in a particular feature..
But then of course we have (software) ‘updates’ that can easily remove a feature (or compromise its’ usability) down the track...
I couldn’t believe I had to register my google account on the device in order to wirelessly drop a file to it (Earlier Androids had no such requirement!!)
There once was an adage that consumers had the power of choice due to our ability to vote with our wallets...
Present day is corporations have ‘all the power’ and governments are the ‘consumer’ trying to please the big entities that can shape world markets... People? we are just the worker bee’s that pay the tax to keep the governments in action to be the consumers of the companies that we used to believe we had the power over...
grins =>
I meant expansive not expensive. Autocorrect gets me every time.
