What is the product? Is it the hardware? Or the software? Are you saying they are one product, not two?
We've been through this countless times. Microsoft and the OEM's. Apple and their locked down hardware. Consumers are not fools. They know the difference between a software company and a hardware company.
Does your packaged food come with silverware?
Do your finished songs come with an mp3 player?
Does your premade clothing come with laundry detergent?
I find these type of comparsions (e.g. of computers and software to food, music, clothing) very strange. We are talking about cheap, programmable consumer electronics. And then we are having an argument over whether the consumer should have the ability to program them. It is absurd.
We've been through this countless times. Microsoft and the OEM's. Apple and their locked down hardware. Consumers are not fools. They know the difference between a software company and a hardware company.
Does your packaged food come with silverware?
Do your finished songs come with an mp3 player?
Does your premade clothing come with laundry detergent?
I find these type of comparsions (e.g. of computers and software to food, music, clothing) very strange. We are talking about cheap, programmable consumer electronics. And then we are having an argument over whether the consumer should have the ability to program them. It is absurd.