They can still give one out with every unit. Not like there'll be much of a resale market for something that came with the unit and isn't compatible with the 360 (most likely).
There really isn't any reason that it NEEDS to be connected otherwise the thing won't work at all. If a game needs it, then the game can yell at you to install it.

Agreed ... that was when I stopped using it.

I killed JFK ... Killing JFK is against the law, therefore I am a lawbreaker.

Doesn't matter that I wasn't born when it happened, since I just said I did it.

This is what I do not understand about peoples complaints. I can point a phone, discreetly, anywhere I want and no one would be the wiser. Just sit down at a table, maybe have a conversation with someone and hold your phone pointing anywhere you want and no one would suspect anything.

Somehow though, a device that requires both voice confirmation AND your face to be physically staring exactly at what you want it to record is seen as invasive.

My fingerprints also can't be used to kick start an investigation into my father, mother, brother or sister without some other evidence about them specifically.

I think what's monstrous about it is that people are expecting the animals to get BETTER care than they would at another shelter when in fact they're just more likely to die.

I agree with you that this is stupid, but your point is kinda flawed.

If the people this is attempting to 'defend' had access to a credit card, they'd just throw the remainder of their cell phone balance on there too and call it a day, with the benefit of enjoying the 0% financing with TMO for as long as it lasted.

To get away from the point you made slightly: If TMO had made the contract so if you had service with them it was 0% financing, but if you left it would be 10% people would still be complaining that they should offer free financing no matter what.

Seriously though, If people can't afford the cost of $300 potentially coming up and biting them in the ass, they shouldn't have gotten a $600 phone. They should have gone on ebay or craigslist & bought a used phone. I've known plenty of people who picked up last years model at a steal shortly after the new model came out. This way you wouldn't have had to sign a loan with dodgy (in the view of the WA AG) requirements and could enjoy their cheap service for as long as it was worth it to you.

I don't see how it would be Ford's fault if you choose not to fill up your gas tank.

No, they do not MAKE you sign a document. You are completely free to pay for your phone 100%. If you choose to instead take out a 0% loan, they will do so for you.

Agreed. I donated a few bucks even though I don't like any of the bands

Likely for the same reason people keep buying Microsoft products; If you have hundreds (maybe thousands) of dollars in software invested, you don't want to have to repurchase it all for another OS (if its even possible).

Accidentally moderated 'Troll' ... commenting to remove that.

He's not happy about being vendor locked, he's happy because it's seamless to upgrade a device he LIKES to another device he'll like. There isn't really a downside to that.

When I upgraded my Android, I enabled the sync and I had damn near everything on my new phone (including settings) before I got home from the store. When I got home, it remembered my wifi settings from my previous phone and finished the sync on wifi. That's damn convenient! Is this a feature that will further make me consider Android in the future? Yes it is!

Chromium is fully open source & has most of the benefits of Chrome. If you're paranoid enough to not use Chrome because of privacy reasons, just use Chromium instead.

Even worse is that we find evidence that it's possible on our OWN planet!