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Originally Posted by BrianG
Either way, no matter if it was Android, BlackBerry, Windows, etc; the issue I have is the purposeful crippling of the system without the added device. It's not about added cost, it's not about requiring Apple specifically. And I've made my opinion clear about this system if the reasoning is to mitigate liability.
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lol... where have you been for the past 15 years? Intel & AMD have been doing this since almost forever. For a very long time now all their CPUs are the same chip, with the lower spec ones being crippled versions of their more powerful counterparts.
At least Trx allows you to un-cripple the product without doing a hack job on it ;)
A lot of car manufactures are the same. They detune engines in the ecu for specific markets. eg Audi TTS, S3, VW Golf R, GTi etc etc..
EDIT: I guess I understand your POV, it's more about the advertising of the product. Other companies don't advertise the potential of their products and then go on to say that you need to pay extra to realise the full potential (some do but not many). In the case of CPU mfgs, they just advertise the non / lesser crippled units as something totally different and make you pay for it. So at the end of the day, it just a matter of marketing perception.