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Sony Decides Its Waterproof Xperia Phones Are Not Actually Waterproof
Mark Wilson writes: Sony seems determined on confusing its customers by giving very conflicting advice about its Xperia smartphones. If you're familiar with the range, you'll no doubt be aware of the advertising material that appears to show users taking photos in the rain and even (seemingly) underwater at the pool. Take a look at the picture above and you'd probably assume that a) it depicts someone shooting a video or taking a photo in a swimming pool, and b) you can do the same with your phone. But you'd be wrong (at least on b) because Sony has changed its mind about what waterproof means. Or it doesn't know. It really depends on where you look on the Sony website.
"Fluff" and "Puffery" are one thing. Explicitly showing people doing things the device can not do is plain false advertising.
A bullet may have your name on it but splash damage is addressed "To whom it may concern."
Just because advertisers have always been depraved abhuman shitweasels, why should we tolerate them being so now? If anything, the fact that a given sector has always been rotten seems like a better argument for extirpating it than for putting up with it.
Quite, we shouldn't expect anything shown in an ad to be accurate. If we buy a so-called "phone" for $600, and it cannot make phone calls, take pictures, or store music, then that's our fault for just assuming it could on the basis that the ads show it doing all those things. We're the idiots, while the advertisers are find upstanding capitalists that are beyond all criticism and whose integrity must not be besmirched by the likes of us.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.