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Comment by csomar | Hacker News Reader

Most people are missing the important piece here: The terms of service is preventing you of doing whatever you want with a physical product you bought.

The F!. You bought the phone with full retail price. You didn't break any laws (as far as I understand it). Why does Google has a say on what you can do with "your" phone.

2018: You can't sell your phone (as a used phone).

2020: Google Drone picks up user phone from his apartment as he is banned from Google.

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Google doesn't have a say on what you can do with your phone.

Google does have a say on what you can do with their service.

These people were clearly trying to game the system. Google caught them red-handed and has now exercised their rights.

But the phone's terms did state (according to TFA): “You may only purchase Devices for your personal use. You may not commercially resell any Device, but you may give the Device as a gift.”

That's exactly my point. I'm critiquing their policy.

Sorry, I read it as protecting their policy

This is (one of) the problem with EULAs: even if I noticed that while not really skimming the EULA, I would ignore it as it seems completely unenforceable from a legal standpoint. I buy something from you and you get to determine what I can and can't do with it? Don't let EA and the other AAA game makers hear about this!

Services aren't tied to a specific phone. That's the whole point of being "services".

You're free to sell the phone, you're just not isolated from the consequences of doing so. Google are fully within their rights (since they wrote their rights, in the agreement you clicked through) to terminate your account at their whim.

Not anything a company writes in their EULA is legal and/or moral just because the user agreed to it.

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