And I think people called being careful and cautious about wide-scale snooping silly before Snowden. I acknowledge that it sounds silly, but at the same time we've seen the sort of things these intelligence agencies can be up to doing on the hardware side that goes undetected for a little while. I maintain that the technological aspect is the one that worries me. I've seen too many stories of how security holes are introduced at too wide a scale to really feel comfortable buying a phone from them.
That, and I'll admit to a distaste of those products on the basis of their manufacturing process and the human cost, but then again Samsung is horrific as well in that regard. Another reason to buy refurbished.
All in all, I have a huge distaste and distrust of the Chinese government and the corporations they can largely influence. Of course, this has nothing to do with Chinese people, who are too humongous an amount of human being to draw any generalized conclusion about other than : they have legs, arms and probably like anime too.
Also, that "wrong way" does annoy me to be honest. I have made efforts to explain myself, I'd rather avoid those era-esque labeling of people based on misinterpreting what they said.