• AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    10 months ago

    TIL General Electric Appliances, Hoover, Fisher & Paykel, Aqua, Hotpoint, Leader, and Candy are all owned by the same company.

    • reddig33@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      10 months ago

      Sad, isn’t it? For fun, look up Whirlpool, Albertsons, and Kroger on Wikipedia to see all the brands they own. No wonder prices are high when so much competition has been eliminated.

  • billwashere@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    10 months ago

    Not that it likely matters much but I sent them an email saying I would never purchase one of their products based on this anti-consumerism.

  • Xatix@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    10 months ago

    I just used their Feedback form to tell them what a shitty practice that is and that I will never use their products again.

  • notannpc@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    10 months ago

    Based on the verbiage of the threat from haier it kinda sounds like they don’t have a leg to stand on. Short of just the financial cost of fighting this blatantly bullshit lawsuit should they file one. The TOS isn’t the law, so to demand the devs to cease all illegal activities means nothing here.

    Or am I misunderstanding something?

    • ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      You are right, TOS isn’t the law. However businesses will try to trick you with this technique, especially if they don’t think you have any legal support. You can’t commit a crime just because the victim agreed to it, no amount of contracts negate this. Employers often pull this trick to force employees to accept illegal practices.

      The person hosting and publishing the code may have never agreed to the TOS. So can’t be bound by it. They also can revoke their agreement, and no longer have to comply with it. However, continued use of the businesses web services likely requires agreeing to the TOS and this plug in may be using the businesses web services to make the plugin work.

  • nexusband@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    Never considered buying Haier anyway, but i am looking specifically for appliances that have HAOS support. So them pulling this shit will put them on my black list for ever. I get why Mazda did it, but the car doesn’t need the app to be useful, i can just ignore that part. But this is an home appliance that looses a big part of it’s usefulness…