How dare those evil gun makers not make their products more fragile, less likely to fire and more prone to failure! If only guns could be made as safe as a child's toy,

Then you may have done it wrong (or whatever example you followed was wrong). The default IDE (Eclipse with the ADK plugin) does not generate permissions into the manifest. They all go in manually. If your Hello, World required extra permissions then they were most likely added by accident or you are using some uncommon IDE/plugin.

They can't launch until they figure out who they will sue for patent infringement once they create the product.

Yes, I see the difference. One follows the headline pattern of print and electronic media that has been established for probably 50-100 years. The other has extra garbage words that do not change the meaning and take up more space.

There's nothing to support the idea that machine quality is linked to registration.

I believe the hike to $900 is their response to 'freeloaders' showing up just to get swag.

Even in 2006, this would have been an obvious solution for anyone in the field.

Could we find a more loaded term than that? I don't think so. Heaven forbid some folks actually try to glom together and do good.