> the idea of buying a car - buying anything that has hardware in it that I have to pay extra to activate, it just seems wrong. I made this point in another th

> the idea of buying a car - buying anything that has hardware in it that I have to pay extra to activate, it just seems wrong. I made this point in another thread but this seems to be appropriate too. If you use an iPhone or android you are under a similar regime. The hardware is capable of running any set of instructions that can exist. But it is artificially restricted to the subset found in the app store. You can pay an extra fee to partially unlock it. You still cannot fully utilize it though.