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Originally Posted by haertig
That was simply a hypothetical example used to make the point that a device may be used differently by different users. One persons choice/preference may not be the same as the other persons choice/preference. It wasn't a debate about the pluses/minuses of a Fire tablet.
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I understand that. I wasn't looking to debate the plusses/minuses of Fire tablets either. It just didn't seem like a very good hypothetical to me (RE the discussion at hand). The fact that a device is unsuitable for someone's use case while being perfectly usable for another's is pre-buy discovery to be made, not a post-buy discovery. As I said;
caveat emptor still very much applies. Someone who has the wherewithal to replace a device's OS also has the wherewithal to find out which device they need to buy so they CAN replace it.
It's never been up to a car manufacturer to eschew putting a clear-coat on their car simply because a buyer might want to buff the paint to higher sheen first. Neither is it up to a device manufacturer to provide a device that someone can repurpose to their heart's content. Caveat emptor.
Don't buy what doesn't suit you (rhetorical). If enough people do the same, there will be a market for devices that suit those people.