Re:I don't think most people care that it's locked (Score 1)

If I had mod points I'd mod you up.

If you ask a geek what he wants from a gadget they'll give you a list of specifications and a prerequisite that it doesn't come from the Evil Empire of the day (Apple at the moment, it was Microsoft, and will probably be Google one day).

Ask a member of the general population (who buy the major volume of gadgets) and they'll tell you what they want it to do and generally not worry about who makes it (although a name they recognise helps).

So geeks can complain about batteries they can't change, kill-switches, and the like and the general population to whom you probably couldn't even explain half of these reasons to won't give a damn.