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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
I would like to hear why you think that the device won't be bought by more than a few geeks if the restrictions stay.
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Most tech buyers, especially early adopters depend heavily on being able to sell their "old" devices so that they can afford the next big thing. And Google users are not Apple users, they don't accept everything that is being dished out and say thank you. Many want to tweak their devices. What if multiple users want to use the same device? What if one user wants to use several accounts? And let us face it, unless some serious design changes are being made this thing will not become main stream, non-Geeks would probably be embarrassed to be seen with it. Heavy restrictions would spell an early end to this product.
Google never makes money on hardware, they make money mining users' data. So for Google such restrictions would make even less sense -- they would hope that users resell, let their friends use it, etc.