This of course depends on your jurisdiction and how much time you’re willing to put into this, but I’d refuse to pay for shipping either way.
You have a contract with the company, and they didn’t fulfil it, that’s on them. They can’t just send you a defective product and make you pay for (part of) it.
I use bxactions to control play/pause (single tap), flashlight (hold when screen is locked) and auto rotation (hold when screen is on). No custom ROMs or root needed, just a quick abd command that comes with the app and disables bixby.
I don’t think they researched this decision.
Who?
The new owners? They’re interested in the high rankings on the playstore. The vast majority of people don’t care about bloat/privacy and install whatever is at the top of search results.
The original developers? I’m sure it worked out for them.
640K ought to be enough for anybody.
Maybe having super high details pn a phone screen doesn’t make sense, but the computing power can still be used in other ways. Maybe standalone consoles stop being a thing and we’ll use our phones like a Nintendo Switch, just plugging it into the TV when we want to. Maybe VR headsets actually are the future.
Who knows.
How can speed limits be real if our eyes aren’t real?
I’ve come to use a privacy friendly, completely local workaround:
There’s sheets of metal at the side of the road with numbers on them, the exact design depends on location. I read this number, and then keep the equivalent number on my vehicles dashboard at an equal or lower amount (slightly above seems to work as well), which prevents the speed cameras from triggering.
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That’s just the result of the inability to challenge laws unless you’re personally affected.
In Germany we have something called abstrakte Normen-Kontrolle, which does exactly what it sounds it does: Federal or state governments or a quarter of members of parliament can ask the Consitutional Court to review a law in the abstract and decide wether it’s compatible with the constitution.
This saves a lot of headaches when it comes to laws that are on the books but unenforced, or are new and so far unchallenged.
You still have a contract. But I get that it may not be worth the trouble.