The typical user doesn't want the freedom before they buy the devices. After they have bought it and have learned of its deficiencies, they want this openness. Take a look at this story about Motorola's facebook page that had a vote on feature requests and the number one was "unlocked bootloader!!!!!". Second most voted was "unlocking the bootloader" and thrid most requested feature was "an unlocked bootloader" and the 4th most requested feature was "something to bypass the bootloader" and the 5th one was "unlocked bootloader" and it so on, take a look at the link below. They want this so they can install custom roms.

http://www.androidpit.com/en/android/blog/394927/Motorola-Marketing-Fail-Fans-Reject-Company-s-Apps-Request-Unlocked-Bootloader

Here is a story about a vote of facebook users on Motorola's page. A majority of users that voted wanted some form of unlocked device.

http://www.androidpit.com/en/android/blog/394927/Motorola-Marketing-Fail-Fans-Reject-Company-s-Apps-Request-Unlocked-Bootloader

add kernel support so you can access your windows shared folders.

From the same survey: 69 percent of consumers indicated that they would prefer Apple’s iPhone 5 as a gift.

DVDs are easy/cheap to duplicate, real hardware is not. Even if these numbers are the "shipped numbers", that is a lot of money sunk in.

If a company wants to use brand name recognition, it works both ways. Good and Bad associations.

Why not limit the number of password tries in a given time unit?

What ever that can be done in hardware, can be done in software. The reverse is also true.

Isn't the first step some kind of feasibility study?

These guys could have manipulated stock prices by saying like Steve Jobs is dead.

When version 1.0 of your product has no "Cut & Paste", you can only go up.

I'm imagining the situation was this ...
Someone set the AC to be on from 9am to 3pm (but really set it to 9pm to 3am) and next day tried setting it again, this time correctly but with both time periods set.

Everyone needs to eat.

What about the 3rd party levels/textures for games like quake1+2, descent1+2, duke3d.

You can be fired for any reason. An interesting story I recently read was that you can be fired for medical marijuana use, even if it is not affecting your job performance. http://www.komonews.com/news/local/123571074.html (Supreme Court: Medical marijuana users can be fired)

To read more on the subject, do an internet search for: html loop OR iterate "not a programming"
http://www.google.ca/search?q=html+loop+OR+iterate+%22not+a+programming%22