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> Pixel's are locked down a very tiny bit

Other people might instead say "Pixels are locked down."

> I don't think this is some kind of dystopian over-reach with security as an excuse.

Why?

> "I must connect to the internet once" problem is a very fair tradeoff from the user's perspective.

Speak for yourself.

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> Speak for yourself.

I am, that's what a "comment" is.

And the second (I dont think...) follows from the first (very tiny bit). I'd just be repeating myself.

This is opinion-based. We just disagree, that's fine.

In return for this feature a class of lower income users are able to buy hundreds of millions of phones and pay for them over an extended period using monthly payments on their phone account. This is the trade-off Google makes.

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